


We were drawn into the gripping development of the story line and breathed a sigh of relief at the end of the story. Her younger sister, Sita, was coerced into drug trafficking.Īt the onset of our book club meeting, a few members, including myself, opined that we approached the book initially with some apprehension, as we were aware that the subject matter involved sex and violence. Nonetheless we all felt that we were spared of the gory details of the horror of sex trade and drugs. Ahalya, the older girl, was forced into the sex trade. While they were attempting to walk to their convent school, they were abducted by human traffickers.

A Walk Across the Sun, written by Corban Addison, traced the ordeal of two sisters in their teens after they had lost their family in the tsunami of 2005, which destroyed their coastal town in India.
