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This is why we read...to immerse ourselves in great and unique stories that are wonderfully written. The story is of sisters Ahalya and Sita, who miraculously survive the well-known December 26th tsunami in India but lose their family to it. Because of their despair, youth and naiveté, the girls are kidnapped and sold to sex traffickers - their odyssey keeps you in its thrall until the end. Sita, the younger sister, is transported from Bombay to Paris and then to the United States. The book could have been very graphic and maudlin, but the author keeps such things to a minimum as much as possible without negating what their lives are truly like in the hands of traffickers, pimps and drug smugglers.

The plot is involved but insightful and it's hard to put the book down. A few very minor things did annoy me, the first of which was the coincidental and too convenient way the hero, lawyer Thomas Clarke, is offered the opportunity to go to Bombay for a year of pro bono work with a non-governmental organization that attempts to find and rescue kidnapped minors. The fact that his estranged wife (who he is still in love with) is from Bombay and is living there is treated as some kind of questionable bonus. It would have been more believable if he had sought out the post in an effort to see and reconcile with her, with the pro bono work as a means to an end...not the other way around. There was also an incident just before he left for India where Thomas witnessed and attempted to stop a kidnapping of an eleven-year old girl that really played no significant part in the story. If it was meant to be meaningful, perhaps, but again another strange coincidence and a distraction. The other problem for me was that the very end was a bit saccharine and syrupy. This was not in keeping with the rest of the book and was a bit too much. Other readers may not have felt this way...just my take. All-in-all, a great book.


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A Walk Across the Sun Corban Addison 9781402792809 Books Reviews

This is the story of two Indian sisters who through fate are thrown into the ugly underworld of human trafficking. It is also the story of a successful attorney forced to search for a moral compass. Ahalya and Sita Ghai's comfortable life's are turned upside down when a tsunami destroys their village and kills their family. In route to a safe haven they are abducted and sold into human bondage.

Halfway around the world, Thomas Clarke, a young attorney is about to go on his own journey. The untimely death of his baby daughter and separation from his Indian born wife has left him struggling for answers. A forced hiatus from his job and an opportunity to reconnect with his wife in India, takes him to the streets of Mumbai. In his new job in Mumbai he is thrust into the world of human trafficking.

The paths of Thomas Clarke and the two sisters will cross in Mumbai and their journey into the world of forced prostitution and human captivity will lead them to Paris and the United States.

This is a work of fiction. The story demands a stretch of the imagination with the numerous coincidences. The story kept my interest and offered insight into the barbaric world of human trafficking and prostitution. The author has researched the topic and has woven a fascinating tale of great suffering and redemption around this heinous crime.
Even thought I am aware there is international sex trafficking, it seems remote and impersonal. This novel changes that. Through the experiences of two young women from India, the reader is led through a series of international horrors. Without repeating the plot, the author sheds light on the dark side of both men and women, rich and poor, educated and illiterate. The story begins in India, travels to France, and then the United States. It is amazing how complicated and coordinated the efforts of the sex traffickers are and the levels of collusion and complicity required of authorities in some countries. The story is gripping.

This is a novel driven by plot. Although the characters of the two Indian girls are believable as are some of the adults who use them, they too often do just seem to be "characters." This, I felt, was especially true of some of the co-workers of Thomas Clarke, the Washington D.C. attorney who undertakes the task of finding the younger sister. His marriage to an Indian woman, his affair with the co-worker, and his relationship with yet again another beautiful co-worker in France do seem a bit contrived at times. However, this is a minor flaw.

In short, I feel the author desperately wanted to shed light on this almost unspeakable horror which is happening to far too many young women across the world. He succeeded in that. The story is definitely worth reading and will be remembered.
I really wanted to love this book. The topic is critical and the beginning was such a good start to the story and on the subject. I particularly liked the beautiful descriptions of everyday life in Indonesia. The novel starts with a beautiful sense of place and relationships. This makes the tsunami and the twins' horrific experiences in becoming victims of human trafficking even more poignant. Perhaps once someone is caught in that web, their life does indeed become a roller-coaster from one horror to another. However, it began to seem unreal to me - how many awful things can happen to these girls? Also, the story of Tom and his dying marriage to Priya seemed flat and unnecessary. I found it a bit boiler-plate and I never really cared much about them as characters.
This is why we read...to immerse ourselves in great and unique stories that are wonderfully written. The story is of sisters Ahalya and Sita, who miraculously survive the well-known December 26th tsunami in India but lose their family to it. Because of their despair, youth and naiveté, the girls are kidnapped and sold to sex traffickers - their odyssey keeps you in its thrall until the end. Sita, the younger sister, is transported from Bombay to Paris and then to the United States. The book could have been very graphic and maudlin, but the author keeps such things to a minimum as much as possible without negating what their lives are truly like in the hands of traffickers, pimps and drug smugglers.

The plot is involved but insightful and it's hard to put the book down. A few very minor things did annoy me, the first of which was the coincidental and too convenient way the hero, lawyer Thomas Clarke, is offered the opportunity to go to Bombay for a year of pro bono work with a non-governmental organization that attempts to find and rescue kidnapped minors. The fact that his estranged wife (who he is still in love with) is from Bombay and is living there is treated as some kind of questionable bonus. It would have been more believable if he had sought out the post in an effort to see and reconcile with her, with the pro bono work as a means to an end...not the other way around. There was also an incident just before he left for India where Thomas witnessed and attempted to stop a kidnapping of an eleven-year old girl that really played no significant part in the story. If it was meant to be meaningful, perhaps, but again another strange coincidence and a distraction. The other problem for me was that the very end was a bit saccharine and syrupy. This was not in keeping with the rest of the book and was a bit too much. Other readers may not have felt this way...just my take. All-in-all, a great book.