The true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent.
What The Reviewers Say
Valerie Hawkins,
Booklist
[Tjipombo] infuses her vivid, soulful account with personal details, yet hers cannot be called a singular story.
Caren Nichter,
Library Journal
[Tjipombo's] tale of 21st-century slavery puts a shocking face to dry statistics.
Kirkus
In this harrowing, unsparing memoir, the author documents unimaginable brutality against women with dignity and grace and provides readers with an urgent education about the devastating scope of human trafficking in the modern world.