Tales From the Global Sex Trade

Beautiful review of Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters Street by FERNANDA EBERSTADT

Opponents of immigration often prefer to ignore the tragic forces that chttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifompel people to risk death in order to reach our lands of plenty, not to mention the horrors that often await the “lucky” few, once they do arrive. Imagine an Underground Railroad in which the conductor robs and rapes his passengers, and the station porter, once they’ve disembarked, ushers them into a new form of slavery. This unholy traffic in impoverished strivers, imported to service needs Westerners don’t want to think about, is the subject of Chika Unigwe’s novel “On Black Sisters Street.”

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