Ribbons of the Sun (Center Point Premier Fiction (Largeprint))

Twelve–year–old Rosa begs to go with her father to the city to sell the flowers her family grows‚ and when the great day finally comes‚ she can barely contain her excitement. But her joy turns to despair when she realizes the real reason for her trip to the city — her impoverished family has been forced to sell her into service as a maid. Assaulted and humiliated by the patron‚ she is thrown out on the hostile city streets to fend for herself and the baby she expects. Alone and without hope‚ her beliefs shattered‚ Rosa learns to survive and triumph in this emotionally violent but deeply spiritual coming of age story.

This book is published posthumously. Harriet Hamilton, who died early in 2006, saw the story as her way to raise the consciousness of readers to the plight of abused and exploited children throughout the world.

"the life story of an Indian girl on the threshold of adulthood, cast out by her own people to work in a household that rejects the culture from which she came...an unflinching view of the antagonisms among racially divided groups, yet it conveys the strength of a people who retain their roots." June Nash, social anthropologist