![]() ![]() She is thirty-one years old and has never left her mountain village. Lakshmi's mother, Ama, works tirelessly to provide for her family. At the end of the text, she seizes her opportunity to escape from Happiness House despite Mumtaz's threats. Lakshmi secretly learns English words and carefully calculates her earnings. She resists Mumtaz, enduring beatings and starvation. In the Happiness House, Lakshmi is resourceful and courageous. She is romantically interested in Krishna, to whom she is betrothed. In addition to helping her mother on the farm, Lakshmi lovingly cares for her goat, Tali, and her cucumber patch. Before her stepfather sells her into sexual slavery, Lakshmi is the top student in her class. The narrator and protagonist of the novel, Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl from a remote mountain village in Nepal. ![]()
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