Body Trade

by Margaret Macpherson
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Publish Date: September 11, 2011
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Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California, Mexico and Central America. The story takes a life-defining twist when their search for freedom and adventure beings them into contact with predators of the Central American sex trafficking trade. The girls' journey into unknown and dangerous territory is punctuated with scenes from a place crash in the far North, underlining the novel's themes of survival, betrayal, epiphany and hope. In a deeply personal narrative that explores power, sexual manipulation, cultural consumption and trust, Body Trade asks the ultimate question: To what terrifying places will we journey, and at what cost, in order to save our own lives? |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

Author Information

Margaret Macpherson

Margaret Macpherson grew up in the Northwest Territories on the shores of Great Slave Lake. She has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has worked as a journalist and teacher in Halifax, Bermuda, and Vancouver. Macpherson is the author of four non-fiction volumes including Silk, Spices and Glory: In Search of the Northwest Passage and the award-winning biography Nellie McClung: Voice for the Voiceless. Her first collection of short fiction, Perilous Departures, was published by Signature Editions in 2004. This is Margaret Macpherson's first novel.

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