Patricia McCormick
Students
in the Schreiber Library received a special visit on May 17th
from award-winning author, Patricia McCormick. She
is
the
award-winning author of the novels Cut, My Brother’s Keeper
and Sold. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism and began her career as a successful freelance
journalist. Her latest novel, Sold, is a 2006 National Book
Award Finalist. Students were able to read this book before her visit,
which tells the story of thirteen-year old Lakshmi, who leaves her poor
mountain home in Nepal thinking she will be working in a nearby city as
a maid, only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in
a brothel in India by her stepfather. The story is beautifully written
from the perspective of this young girl in a series of poetic
vignettes. McCormick explained how she traveled to India and Nepal to
interview girls and women who are victimized by human trafficking.
Students in several clubs are having bake sales to raise money (and
awareness) to help girls like Lakshmi. All proceeds will be donated
to the non-profit organization
Maiti Nepal.
