A Walk Across the Sun - Corban Addison

Not that my overviews do justice to any of the books I talk about here I knew there was no way that I could on this book.  I am including the overview from the Barnes and Noble sight about the book.

When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. As they struggle to reach the safe haven of the convent where they attend school, they are abducted by human traffickers and thrust into a hidden world of sexual violence and illicit commerce, where the most valuable prize is the innocence of a child.

Halfway across the world, in Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faces his own personal and professional crises. Haunted by the tragic death of his infant daughter and estranged from his wife, he makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical in India with an NGO that prosecutes the subcontinent's human traffickers. In Mumbai, his conscience awakens as he sees firsthand the horrors of the sex trade and the corrupt judicial system that fosters it. When he learns the fate of Ahalya and Sita, Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them, setting the stage for a deadly showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals.

Before I was even 100 pages into this book I was thinking that there was no way that I could finish it.  I had already been crying countless times and knew that it would only get worse as the story progressed.  I tried to walk away from this story a number of times.  I am so glad that I didn't put this book down, but it also was very disturbing.  It was a great book.  I know, I know none of that makes sense to me either.  I loved the sisters in this book and their story of their family and I wanted to reach in and protect them from all of the disturbingly, evil, abusive men (and some women) that they came in contact with.  I would read until I couldn't read anymore then walk away until I had to find out if they escaped and then the whole process started all over again. 

This isn't a book for everyone not because it is graphic but because of the subject.  The author listed some websites at the end of the book that I am going to list here.  I have looked at a few but haven't had the chance to look at all of them yet. 

WWW.state.gov/g/tip
www.polarisproject.org
www.fondationscelles.org
www.sharedhope.org
thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com


I think that if you read this book it will have a major impact.