Review: A Must Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2012
A very well written story with excellent characterisation. It's also a history lesson into the sad and difficult lives of girls born to poor families in India, the very lowest of the lower castes. Manasa is forced to flee her home and family and live in poverty on the streets of Calcutta with her baby daughter. Life is hard but she manages to put others she meets, first, sharing her precious food and water with Sharmilla and her family. With nowhere to live, no money,no prospects, Manasa is forced to turn to prostitution to put a roof over her own and her baby daughter's heads. She survives the life she is thrown into and eventually meets a man who cares for her. But a long struggle awaits as they makes plans to rescue children from the clutches of evil Mona, the madam who runs the brothel. A very gripping tale of a life that will make you realise how lucky you are, long after you finish reading it.