On the Bookshelf

When I get a spare minute from working, driving, eating, grocery shopping, sewing, blogging, and playing that so-darn-addictive Blackberry Brickbreaker game, I'm going to read this book next: (you'll notice "going to the gym" conveniently wasn't on that list...)

The book's description says,

"On the black market, they're the third most profitable commodity, after illegal weapons and drugs--the only difference being that these goods are human, though to their handlers they are wholly expendable.  They are women and girls, some as young as 12, from all over the Eastern bloc, where sinister networks of organized crime have become entrenched in the aftermath of the collapse of Communist regimes.  In Israel, they're called Natashas, whether they're actually from Russia, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, or Ukraine... They often have nowhere to turn; in many cases, the men who should be rescuing them--from immigration officials to police officers and international peacekeepers--are among their aggressors."

 The Natashas was written by a Canadian journalist and is pretty recent, having been published in 2005.  After this I'm going to try to get my hands on a copy of Siddarth Kara's brand new book, "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery."  Carrie, a fellow Love146 Boston taskforce member, is reading it now--and then hopefully we'll do a book switch.  

Courtesy of Amazon, you can watch Siddharth Kara talk about his book here.  

Read anything else lately on the subject that you'd recommend? Let me know and I'll add it to my list.