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Stolen Woman (2011)

by Kimberly Rae(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1461068932 (ISBN13: 9781461068938)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

CreateSpace

series

Stolen

review 1: I opened up this book because of the human trafficking themes. I also was very impressed by the authors' resume. Kimberly Rae has lived in Bangladesh, Uganda, Kosovo, and Indonesia. What I got when I opened the book was an intriguing look into the sights and sounds of India. Stolen Woman has a rich setting. You will feel like you are in India as you read about the village markets, "see" the exquisite saris, and hear about the struggle local missionaries encounter to help the trafficked women under the noses of the pimp-controlled authorities. In this world, one misstep means enslavement or death. But the heroine doesn't know that. Asha, the American adoptee heroine might have the right skin color to fit in, but she's far from aware of all the brutal undercurrents runn... moreing below the outwardly colorful and happy town of Kolkata. She travels to Kolkata to work in the local orphanage for a summer's mission trip. Before long though, she ends up deeply involved in a trafficked girl's life. The rewards, saving a girl from a life of sex trafficking, are very real, but the risks are just as real. Will Asha lose her own freedom in her attempt to save her friend?
review 2: Kimberly Rae tells an interesting story of Asha, who was adopted as a baby by American parents, and how she makes a faith-filled trip to volunteer at an orphanage in India, the home of her birth. Part of her mission is to find out more about her heritage, the other is to discover if God wants her to be a missionary. There, she meets Mark Stephens, a third-generation missionary, and Rani, a girl who has been tricked into prostitution. Asha has to decide if she will obey the mission's directive not to get involved and to stop trying to help Rani, or to follow her heart, which tells her she must do something, even if she doesn't know what.In a way I could identify with the frustration Asha felt when she was told to stop helping Rani, and yet at the same time, I also identified with the frustration that Mark had in getting this stupid bull-headed American to stop trying to think she knows better than the 'locals'. (I still think they should have told her what they were doing from the beginning, but then again, this is just a story. ha) Maybe this stems from the fact that, while I'm not involved in anything as dangerous as human trafficking, I have seen and heard enough well-intentioned but badly carried out forms of "evangelism" and "trying to help" which, coupled with the fact that some missionaries do not understand cultural differences (and sometimes don't try to), ends up in either making things really confused, or even turning people off from the gospel. less

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