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A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Somaly Mam Foundation.A riveting, raw, and beautiful memoir of tragedy and hopeBorn in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking--rape, torture, deprivation--until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but remained haunted by the girls in the brothels she left behind.Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life and tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. She has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, some as young as five and six; she has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change.To learn more about how you can help fight human trafficking, visit the foundation's website: www.somaly.org.
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Abused children, Afesip (Organization), Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Child prostitution, Child sexual abuse, Childhood and youth, Children, Crimes against, Current Events, Nonfiction, Orphans, Sociology, Women, biography, Cambodia, social conditionsPeople
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Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
2009, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
2008, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Road of Lost Innocence
2008, Random House Publishing Group
Electronic resource
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