![]() Early on, a poem entitled "Everything I Need to Know" marks her step into womanhood (after her first menstrual cycle) later, "Everything I Need to Know Now" lists her rules as an initiated prostitute. Soon a hard-won sense of irony invades her narrative, too. During her journey, the girl acquires a visual and verbal vocabulary of things she has never seen before: electric lights, a TV. ![]() After a monsoon wipes out their crops, her profligate stepfather sells Lakshmi to an "auntie" bound for the city. Even in their poverty-stricken rural home, Lakshmi finds pleasure in the beauty of the Himalayan mountains, the sight of Krishna, her betrothed, and the cucumbers she lovingly tends, then sells at market. ![]() ) reveals her gradual awakening to the harshness of the world around her. ![]() Through Lakshmi's innocent first-person narrative, McCormick ( Cut This hard-hitting novel told in spare free verse poems exposes the plight of a 13-year-old Nepali girl sold into sexual slavery. ![]()
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