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Lakshmi is just a thirteen-year-old woman who lives with her family in a little hut on the hill in Nepal. Her life is saturated in simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her closest friend from college, and having her hair is brushed by her mother by the light of an oil lamp, although she's seriously bad. Nevertheless when the severe Himalayan monsoons clean out all that remains of the family’s plants, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she should leave home and have a job to aid her family. He presents her to some attractive stranger who tells her she'll find her a job as a maid in the town. Happy in order to simply help, Lakshmi trips to India and gets to “Happiness House” saturated in hope.  But she quickly discovers the impossible truth:  she's been offered into prostitution.An aged lady called Mumtaz guidelines the brothel with cruelty and cunning.  She informs Lakshmi that she's caught there until she can pay-off her family’s debt—then tips Lakshmi of her meager profits so that she can never leave.Lakshmi’s existence becomes a nightmare where she can't escape.  Nevertheless, she lives by her mother’s words—Simply to withstand would be to triumph—and progressively, she forms relationships with another women that Allow her to endure in this frightening new world.  Then your time comes when she should create a decision—will she risk everything for an opportunity to recover her life? Written in extra and evocative vignettes, this strong book makes a global that's as unthinkable because it is actual, and a woman who not just endures but triumphs.