Corban Addison, a novelist, spoke to Allen Cardoza, host of Answers for the Family Talk Radio Show concerning the heartbreaking and harrowing experiences associated with researching and writing the novel, "A Walk Across the Sun."
In describing his research, Addison discussed his undercover work in India to chronicle the underworld of modern slavery.
Before journeying to India, Corban Addison spent six months reading everything he could find on the human trafficking trade. He then spoke to human trafficking activists in the United States and the European Union, as well as travelling to Washington DC to interview a high-level official at the Justice Department. In all, he amassed over two hundred pages of notes from his interviews.
Besides interviews, the author spent a month with the International Justice Mission, IJM. This is a human rights group that combats human slavery all over the world. In IJM, he interviewed investigators who roamed the red light areas rescuing girls, worked alongside social workers and talked to children rescued from exploitation. Furthermore, Addison went undercover as an investigator in the brothels of Mumbai, where he met girls forced into prostitution.
A Book Synopsis
A tsunami inside a coastal town in India leaves two sisters homeless, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and 15-year-old sister Sita. As the orphans journey to their school, which is a convert, looking for shelter, they are accosted by human traffickers and forced into an illicit world of sex and abuse.
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faced by the tragic death of his infant daughter and estranged from his wife accepts a pro bono sabbatical in India with an NGO that prosecutes human traffickers.
In Mumbai, Clarke sees for himself the horrors of child prostitution and discovers how this crime is ignored by the corrupt judicial system. Researching this crime, he discovers Ahalya and Sita, and determines to set them free them from an international network of criminals.
A Walk Through the Sun chronicles slavery in our modern world. It spans two cultures across three continents.
In describing his research, Addison discussed his undercover work in India to chronicle the underworld of modern slavery.
Before journeying to India, Corban Addison spent six months reading everything he could find on the human trafficking trade. He then spoke to human trafficking activists in the United States and the European Union, as well as travelling to Washington DC to interview a high-level official at the Justice Department. In all, he amassed over two hundred pages of notes from his interviews.
Besides interviews, the author spent a month with the International Justice Mission, IJM. This is a human rights group that combats human slavery all over the world. In IJM, he interviewed investigators who roamed the red light areas rescuing girls, worked alongside social workers and talked to children rescued from exploitation. Furthermore, Addison went undercover as an investigator in the brothels of Mumbai, where he met girls forced into prostitution.
A Book Synopsis
A tsunami inside a coastal town in India leaves two sisters homeless, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and 15-year-old sister Sita. As the orphans journey to their school, which is a convert, looking for shelter, they are accosted by human traffickers and forced into an illicit world of sex and abuse.
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faced by the tragic death of his infant daughter and estranged from his wife accepts a pro bono sabbatical in India with an NGO that prosecutes human traffickers.
In Mumbai, Clarke sees for himself the horrors of child prostitution and discovers how this crime is ignored by the corrupt judicial system. Researching this crime, he discovers Ahalya and Sita, and determines to set them free them from an international network of criminals.
A Walk Through the Sun chronicles slavery in our modern world. It spans two cultures across three continents.
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Learn more about A Walk Across The Sun. Stop by Allen Cardoza's site where you can listen to the interview with Corban Addison.
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