The Road of Lost Innocence

I received this book from work as our campus-wide reading program and I thought I knew about human slavery and sexual slavery, but I was wrong. Mam tells it like it is. She talks about the six-year-old girls sold into slavery by their family members as well as her own experience as a prostitute/slave. She also writes about her struggle to help educate clients, prostitutes and victims. It's basically one long feature article on Mam, but it's worth reading.

There's no denying that this is a powerful, inspiring story. Somaly Mam is an incredible person. It seems harsh to criticize the life story of a woman with no connection to her biological family who was sold into prostitution as a child, still haunted by torment and shame. As the story of someone's tragic childhood and adolescence, there should be no judgment. However, the book is clearly written by someone who is not a native English speaker, and I tend to connect more deeply with more fluent and capable writing.