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A powerful novel written in vignettes about a a Nepalese girl who risks everything for a chance to reclaim her life.

Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though they are desperately poor, Lakshmi’s life is full of simple pleasures: playing hopscotch with her best friend, looking after her black-and-white speckled goat, having her mother brush her ha...