This bleak and brutal novel follows Anya along her journey north from Los Angeles to Oakland on the I-5 interstate that bisects the Central Valley of California. A victim of deep deception; Anya was lied to, and is now kept under lock and key, used by her employer to service men, and indebted for the “privilege.” In exchange, she lives in the United States and fantasizes about a future of freedom. A powerful account of sex trafficking, this stirring tale reveals one victim’s pain and her attempt to escape it.
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Summer Brenner is the author of nine books, including Dancers & the Dance, Ivy: Tale of a Homeless Girl in San Francisco, and The Soft Room. She lives in Berkeley, California.
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Elegant and refined prose beautifully unravels a difficult theme,
This review is from: I-5: A Novel of Crime, Transport, and Sex (Switchblade) (Paperback)
A beautifully written story. Brenner has an elegant and refined voice, encompassing deep observation, wonderful ironies, and heartfelt characters. I could sense, see and feel all of the characters, and I loved the details that captured them: Marty's gums, Pedro's tarantula arms, Mohammed's salty romanticism, Anya's love of waffles.I appreciated the streaks of humor and irony, and the depth of Brenner's observations: "Dying is the only thing that makes one man equal to another." But I was really impressed by her restraint, because in choosing not to sensationalize the sex and violence in order to inflame her readers about the damages inherent in the sex industry, her delicate treatment of the material let us feel the despair, the outrage, the hopelessness intrinsic to this difficult issue in our own way.
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This I-5 is a far cry from John Muir's Golden Valley. Welcome to the Real.,
By Niny Pagan "Chas W" (The Main Line, Philly) - See all my reviews
This review is from: I-5: A Novel of Crime, Transport, and Sex (Switchblade) (Paperback)
I loved the vignette quality of this book, cinematic and tactile. While some passages are quite graphic, the whole travels like a heavy ferryboat over a glassy sea: the drip drip of great story-telling with nothing spared but nothing spare. Anya's ethereal foreign-ness is Candide-like and yet tough. The prison stop hysterical. This is a terrific book for smart people who think they know a lot. You don't.
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A riveting tale of a new kind of Heroine,
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The tale of Anya is instantly engaging and startling. The novel brings to life a seedy underworld that exists all around us. Brenner shines the light on the underworld of human sex trafficking by utilizing the brightness of her main character, the at once strong, weak and real Anya. I could not put this novel down, engaging, exciting, entertaining, but at the same time thought provoking. A+
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