BREAKING FREE: TRUE STORIES OF GIRLS WHO ESCAPED MODERN SLAVERY
Book ID/图书代码： 01380014B67156
English Summary/英文概要： Somaly Mam was born in the forests of Cambodia in the early 1970’s and sold into sexual slavery by her "grandfather" before she was even twelve years old.
Maria Suarez came to America from Mexico when she was fifteen with her family. She went on a job interview to be a maid. When she got inside, her "interviewer" locked the door and told her he owned her body from that moment on.
Minh Dang was born in San Jose, California. Her house was always neat and there were bright rose bushes in her front yard. Nobody knew that behind closed doors her parents were raping and abusing her from the time she was three years old. Soon they started selling her body to neighbors as well.
These three women could easily have been voiceless victims, lost to the horrors of their own histories. Instead, they not only fought their way out of sexual slavery, they have each become leading advocates and activists in the anti-trafficking movement.
Somaly Mam began her work simply, by supplying condoms and soap to the enslaved girls. Soon she was taking girls into her own home and helping them learn a trade. Eventually, a foundation was born where young women, rescued from the sex trade, could begin new lives for themselves. Maria is a counselor for abused women in California and speaks all over the globe about her experiences and empowering women to speak out for their rights. She is also busy starting the Maria Suarez Foundation, dedicated to Prevention, Rescue and Restoration of survivors. Minh is getting her Master’s in social work and is currently director of Don’t Sell Bodies, with actress Jada Pinkett Smith. Minh writes and speaks internationally about what it’s like to be a survivor and learn how to love for the first time fearlessly.
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Slavery, by award-winning author Abby Sher, recounts these women’s incredible journeys from sex slave to survivor to savior-- but it doesn’t stop there. The book delves even deeper into the horrors of human trafficking, which is receiving so much attention from the media these days.
With help from Somaly, Maria, Minh, and many other survivors and counselors, Sher tells the riveting story of what it means to be liberated from sexual trafficking and find the trust and conviction to help educate new survivors.
Remarkable, timely, and incredibly inspiring, Breaking Free, will strike a chord with YA readers as it recounts the stories of these courageous young women who, instead of running from their pasts, endeavor to help those still caught in the system. It sends the powerful message that, even in the most tragic circumstances, the unwavering hope and compassion of the human spirit will still shine through.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 索玛丽??玛姆于1970年代早期出生在柬埔寨的森林里，在她不到12岁的时候，她被她的“祖父”卖给了别人做性奴。
苏亚雷斯和她的家人在她15岁的时候，从墨西哥搬到了美国。她去应征女佣人的职位。当她进去时，她的“面试官”锁上了门，告诉她，他从那一刻起就拥有了她的身体。
党明当出生在加利福尼亚，圣若泽。她的房子总是整洁的，她家的院子里种着鲜艳的玫瑰树。没有人知道在紧闭的门后，她从她三岁的时候开始，她遭到了她父母强奸和虐待。很快他们就开始让她给邻居卖淫。
这三个女人很容易就成了无声的受害者，失去了对自己历史的恐惧。相反，他们不仅为摆脱性奴役而努力奋斗，她们也成为了反贩卖运动中的主要倡导者和积极分子。
索玛丽??玛姆开始她的工作时很简单，她向被奴役的女孩们提供避孕套和肥皂。很快她就把女孩带到她自己的家里，帮助他们学习贸易。最终，一个基金会诞生了，将年轻女性从性交易中解救出来，让她们开始新的生活。玛丽亚是加利福尼亚受虐妇女辅导员，在全世界各个地方做演讲讲她的经历，鼓励女性为她们的权利说话。她也忙着创建苏亚雷斯基金会，致力于幸存者的预防、救援和心理修复。明正在读取社会工作的硕士学位，目前和女演员贾达??萍克特??史密斯是“不卖身”组织的主任。在世界范围内演讲和写作关于作为幸存者是何种感受和学习如何第一次大胆去爱。
由获奖作者阿比谢尔著作的《自由自在：逃离现代奴隶制的女孩们的故事》叙述了这些妇女们令人难以置信的从性奴隶到幸存者再到救世主的人生旅途--但它不会停留在那里。本书更深入的讲了贩卖人口的恐怖，这些天得到了从媒体如此多的关注。
索玛丽??玛姆，明和其他幸存者和顾问们的帮助下，谢尔讲了从性交易中解放出来，找到帮助教育新的幸存者的信任和信念意味着什么的引人入胜的故事。
非凡的，及时的，和令人难以置信的鼓舞，《自由自在》，将引起青年读者们的共鸣，它讲述了这些勇敢的年轻女性，努力帮助那些仍被困在困境中的人的故事，而不是她们的过去。它发出了强有力的信息，即使在最悲惨的情况下，人类坚定的希望和同情仍然会闪耀。(YYW)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 阿比谢尔是位作家和演员。她的作品登上了《现代爱情：50个真实，非凡的关于欲望，欺骗的故事》，《奉献》和《卧室门后：得到它，给予它，爱它，丢失它》，《纽约时报》，《洛杉矶时报》，《自我》，《简》，《ELLE》，《赫博》和《红皮书》。她是成人回忆录《阿门，阿门，阿门：一个不能停止祈祷的女孩的回忆录（还有其他的事情）》的作者，也著有青年成人小说《亲吻雪花》。阿比创作并出演了《芝加哥第二城市》，《正直的公民们》和《纽约磁剧院》。她和她的丈夫女儿住在布鲁克林。
Abby Sher is a writer and performer whose work has appeared in Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion and Behind the Bedroom Door: Getting it, Giving it, Loving it, Missing it as well as in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Self, Jane, Elle, HeeB and Redbook. She is the author of the adult memoir Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Praying (Among Other Things) and the young adult novel Kissing Snowflakes. Abby has written and performed for the Second City in Chicago and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade and Magnet Theater in New York. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
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