Uprising
About This Book
Somewhere on a desolate, sinking island, a group of children watch their mothers live in cruelty and servitude. The women belong to Amma, a sadistic madam who was herself once sold into slavery, and they have long since taught themselves to accept what is done to them. The children cope in their own way, spinning elaborate stories about escaping the island one day and living free. Then Kusum Khan arrives. She is young and educated, a woman from the city who has been brought to the island by force. Like the others, she is put through Amma's brutal initiation, but she will not bend. Her refusal starts to wear away the resignation around her, and the other captives begin to find a fierce defiance of their own. What follows is a rebellion that threatens to overturn the island, the world its people know and the order that has kept them down. Uprising is a drama about resistance and female power, and it gives voice to women who have been silenced, through a revolution that no one saw coming.
ISBN: 9780143484165
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