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Dance for Me
- Narrated by: Natalie Duke
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 05-23-17
- Language: English
- Publisher: Child Abuse True Stories
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $14.95
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Publisher's Summary
Maelea is an average 11-year-old living in Anlong Veng, Cambodia. Her days consist of fishing in the Mekong River with her father, watching her younger sister Srey, cooking with her mother, and dancing joyfully throughout the hut.
When her sister becomes ill with dengue fever and the family worries she will die, her father journeys to the city in search of help. He returns with a doctor and a mysterious woman whom he tells Maelea she will now work for as a domestic servant.
Maelea is promised a door to a better future, including school, but finds herself trapped in a brothel instead. There she endures unimaginable torture, isolation, and is forced to sell her body up to 60 times a night for two years until one horrific act of terror becomes an unlikely saving grace.
Dance For Me is an honest and compassionate look into child sex trafficking. It will make you angry, it will make you sad, and it will inspire you to act for those who you cannot.
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- coolmamma
- JUSTIN, TEXAS, United States
- 09-11-17
Hard read/listen
This was a good book don't get me wrong. However it took me a while to read because it made me sick and depressed every time I listened to it. The things this poor girl went through is just horrible. Unfortunately this is not an uncommon story. Thousands of young girls and boys are trafficked every day. Not just in other countries but the US as well. Natalie thank you for sharing your story.
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- Heather W
- 07-05-17
very gripping. sad story but very well told.
the details make me feel like I was there, I would definitely recommend this to others
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- Anonymous User
- 08-07-18
haunting but beautifully told
I was a little bored in the beginning but I came to find the overactive and still childlike telling of the story to be the most compelling part as we dive deeper into territory no child should ever even have to imagine... the narrator was a great pick! the voice sounds like it could be the one of story teller,.
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- Brie
- 03-06-18
it was okay....
narrator was great and I really did feel like I was there listening to the little girl. I feel terrible for what she had to go through but even being a victim of trafficking myself, I just couldn't get it.
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- Susan Bearden
- 01-24-18
Heartbreaking but reality.
Narrator was fantastic! Story is heart wrenching & truly makes you realize how some people could just be so cruel. So sad that anyone, much less children are trapped and must endure this everyday. Well written & told & I couldn’t stop listening.
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- Ozifarmer
- 06-18-17
Listed at true crime but is actually fiction
What disappointed you about Dance for Me?
I purchased it thinking it was a true story as I like to read how people overcome adversity but it turned out to be fiction.
What should have been a compelling subject was glossed over. You got a bit of a sense of the horror of what was happening but more from knowing what you've learned in life than what came out of the story. It didn't help that the narrator sounded so bored and read the whole book in a monotone. It sounded like someone spaced out on drugs when it should have sounded like a young girl going through a horrific experience
What will your next listen be?
A lighter subject, perhaps Peter James as I enjoy most of his books
How did the narrator detract from the book?
She sounded totally bored and read the whole thing in a monotone.
You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
None. It had the potential to be a great story but I never got a grasp of the true horror that girls in this situation must experience.