After the police find her, she is placed by her family in a five-star rehab facility called Clean Slate. After Seth, readers are introduced to Whitney, a girl from a wealthy family whose boyfriend/pimp Bryn facilitated her trafficking and heroin addiction. He also volunteers part-time at the YouCenter serving LGBTQ youth. After a string of boyfriends, Seth finds the only way to survive is to begin working for an escort service.
Next, the narrative moves to Seth, a farm boy from Indiana whose father kicked him out after he came out to him. Ginger practices writing her story through poetry while at House of Hope. Ginger is living in House of Hope, a Christian center for young sex workers looking to become survivors. Next, the story shifts to Ginger, who runs away from home with her girlfriend Alex after years of her mother selling her to men for drugs, but is eventually arrested for soliciting an undercover cop. Cody's struggles with gambling led him to sex work. The first character introduced is Cody, who wakes up in the hospital after being show to find that he is paralyzed from the waist down. As a sequel narrative, Traffick focuses on each characters' attempt to become a survivor of trafficking and their individual, rocky roads to recovery. All the way home.The Plot: Traffick (2015) is the sequel to Ellen Hopkins's Tricks, and in it Hopkins presents the intertwining narratives of five teenagers from across the country who are living in Vegas and have been victimized by sex trafficking. Heartwrenching and hopeful, Traffick takes us on five separate but intertwined journeys through the painful challenges of recovery, rehabilitation, and renewal to forgiveness and love. In her bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduced us to five memorable characters tackling these enormous questions: Eden, the preacher's daughter who turns tricks in Vegas and is helped into a child prostitution rescue Seth, the gay farm boy disowned by his father who finds himself without money or resources other than his own body Whitney, the privileged kid coaxed into the life by a pimp and whose dreams are ruined in a heroin haze Ginger, who runs away from home with her girlfriend and is arrested for soliciting an undercover cop and Cody, whose gambling habit forces him into the life, but who is shot and left for dead.Īnd now, in Traffick, these five are faced with the toughest question of all: Is there a way out? How these five teenagers face the aftermath of their decisions and experiences is the soul of this story that exposes the dark, ferocious underbelly of the child trafficking trade.
Description Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this "sincere and moving" ( Booklist) companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Tricks from Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank.
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