by James Levine, Meera Simhan
There was a party for Batuk, everyone came, even though Batuk did not know the reason for this celebration. She thought she had a terminal illness and that later she would leave with her father to visit a doctor in another city. Even on their journey, her father would not reveal the reason for their...
A read that should stir all the reader's feeling and emotions, this is not a book one can finish and feel absolutely nothing. Batuk is nine when she is sold by her father and enters the hungry world of childhood slavery and prostitution. Human trafficking and the trafficking of minor is a huge money...
Eerily haunting story about a child prostitute in India who keeps a journal in "the blue notebook"
I loved this book! Even though at times the way that Batuk refers to her situation is silly (calling it "sweetcake" and "baking", the johns are "bakers") and her imagination makes it hard to follow sometimes what is going on...I really felt connected to her. The first part of the book goes from th...
Heavy.
Batuk is a fifteen-year-old girl living in a brothel on Common Street in Mumbai, India. The bright points in her life are her best friend, Puneet, a male prostitute living a few “nests” down from her in the same brothel, and a notebook which she keeps hidden away in a slit in her thin mattress. Her...
This was such a beautiful and poignant book, but oh so heart wrenching and difficult to read. Not an easy read, but definitely a must read!
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