“A Walk Across the Sun” is an unforgettable story of success, failure, fear and immense courage. A book that takes us into lives of strangers and the dangerous world they live in.
It is the day after Christmas, the Ghai family, made up of a father, mother, grandmother, housekeeper and two teenage girls, Ahalya and Sita spend a family evening by the waterfront home by one of Tamil Nadu’s coastal villages. Collecting seashells, the family is cocooned in their happy little world, unknowing that from this day on, their world would never be the same. A Tsunami, sweeps away the family, leaving only two survivors, Ahalya and Sita. Ahalya, quickly decides that they must find safety, and plans to make the trip to Chennai, to a hostel run by nuns. With the help of their father’s friend, they fetch a ride and make the journey, only to find them in a life they could never have imagined: in the chilling dangerous underworld of the international sex-trade and human trafficking.
On the other side of the world in Washington, Thomas Clarke, a young successful lawyer finds himself in a loss of his own. After his wife Priya leaves following the death of their daughter Mohini, Thomas is left alone and confused. Soon after, being wrongfully blamed for a mishap at his prestigious law form, he is offered a choice and finds himself at a crossroads, where he must decide whether to take time off work, or to work pro-bono for a non-profit for a year. While he desires to be a judge one day and wants to continue at his firm, his witnessing of a kidnapping of a 10-year old girl at the Park leaves him wondering if a trip across the world with a non-profit is what he needs to find himself…
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