Maid in Kolkata
Shalu's world had suddenly fallen apart the day her parents died. The shy, sixteen-year-old school girl had been expecting to go to college but as the state of her father's finances became clear, one thing was clear. She was destitute. There would be no college for her, not now and not ever. Two years later found the young Indian woman working as a maid for an American family. The man was a businessman of some sort, although Shalu didn't know what, and his wife shopped, and then there were...