Dzuco Hu Hu থেকে Awarhi, Uttar Pradesh 274206, India থেকে Awarhi, Uttar Pradesh 274206, India

It broke my heart to read this book, but I consider it the most important book I've read so far this year. The girls are commercially sexually exploited children and teenagers in the United States. They are trafficked for drugs and other commodities for their pimps. They are physically abused - tied up, poorly nourished, forced users of drugs and alcohol and sold to men. The author was herself such a victim and she traces her growth to survivor and leader as she works with the girls in the agency she established in New York City, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS). The girls successfully challenged and changed the state law of New York to decriminalize the girls and provide healing services to them instead. New York was the first state to make this change, but hopefully others will follow.