S.J. Laidlaw
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Laidlaw, Susan J.
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Canada
USA - Geburtsort
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Wohnorte
- Mumbai, India
- Ausbildung
- BA (English), MSW
- Berufe
- Writer
- Agent
- Transatlantic Literary Agency, Inc.
- Kurzbiographie
- Susan J. Laidlaw has twenty years experience as a teacher and counselor in schools and clinical settings around the world. She has published articles on parenting and has led workshops for parents and professional educators on a diverse range of topics related to raising and working with third culture children. When she isn't backpacking through Asia or birdwatching around her island home in Honduras, she can be found writing stories. Susan J. Laidlaw currently resides in India.
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Fifteen Lanes von S.J. Laidlaw
Friendship
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.I really enjoyed this book. Compulsively readable, because the alternating chapters made you keep going to find out what happens next. It's amazing that despite the disparity in the girls' situations, you feel equally empathy for both. It takes a deft hand to do that.
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben."Fifteen Lanes" is told through the eyes of Ellen and Noor, teenagers living in Mumbai, India. Ellen's family has wealth, while Noor's has none. Despite their differences, both young women want and need friendship and courage to move forward in their lives.
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.Noor is living in the fifteen lanes in Kamathipura, Mumbai's red light district. She is fourteen years old and will someday inherit the destiny of her mother, a prostitute. She is a devadasi, and that is the way of their heritage. Noor has a sister, Aamaal and a brother, Shami. Shami has been born with HIV, so he is a sickly child.
Grace lives across the city in a more privileged section of India. Grace is rather a loner, but has an incident with someone on a cell phone where she reveals herself and ends up paying an outrageous price for such at school.
The two girls meet in a program where Grace and VJ Patel are helping young girls growing up in the red light district. They become friends.
This was such an interesting and thought-provoking book. The author works with actual victim's of this way of life. It is so hard to believe that people are forced to live like this in today's world.… (mehr)
Grace lives across the city in a more privileged section of India. Grace is rather a loner, but has an incident with someone on a cell phone where she reveals herself and ends up paying an outrageous price for such at school.
The two girls meet in a program where Grace and VJ Patel are helping young girls growing up in the red light district. They become friends.
This was such an interesting and thought-provoking book. The author works with actual victim's of this way of life. It is so hard to believe that people are forced to live like this in today's world.… (mehr)
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- #144,062
- Bewertung
- 4.0
- Rezensionen
- 41
- ISBNs
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