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“This drama is captivating. It richly portrays the texture of today’s libertine Europe and the dehumanizing, violent traffic in women and girls as sex commodities.”

— AMBASSADOR MARK P. LAGON, Ph.D. MSFS
Chair for International Relations,
Georgetown University,
and Former U.S. Ambassador to
Combat Trafficking in Persons

“J. L. Morin has put into a novel the kind of poignant subject matter that only a book of this strength and delicacy can deliver. A novel whose time has come.”

—SUSAN RUBIN, Ms Magazine Blogger

"Morin's wit can be delicious."

— Canberra Times

Travelling Light portrays modern-day slavery in the form of a palatable suspense to raise awareness by welcoming readers to Styxos, the newest EU accession state, head over heels in modernization as investment pours in. Most people don’t know that there are 27 million slaves in the world today, as per the UN web site. The US government is working on the issue: Hillary Clinton confirms that slavery has endured into the modern day even in the United States of America in the 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report. This novel is a timely eye-opener, now that the slave industry is expected to exceed drug trafficking. There are more slaves on earth today than at any time in human history and at least twice as many as there were at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 1700’s — men, women and children captured and violently forced into unpaid labour who cannot walk away.

Travelling light to a remote island ‘paradise’, Mac finds herself trapped on the lowest level of society with only the ghost of a call girl in her entourage. She befriends Farouk, a French businessman derailed from his ensuing marriage when he is implicated in the murder of a call girl at a highbrow investors’ gala.

Will Mac fight back or become one of the 27 million modern-day slaves who fall victim to human trafficking rings? Can Farouk escape a journey into instinct and extend the benefits of civilization to this newest EU accession state? Watch Mac in the company of this charming connoisseur with more to lose than an infrastructure bid.

J. L. Morin has been nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2011, and is the author of the award-winning novel, Sazzae, which Morin started as a creative thesis at Harvard. Morin says, “Travelling Light grew out of my fascination with the idea of art as incantation — that cave paintings were prayers for a successful hunt, or that rain dances brought rain. I decided to put it to the test when I travelled to the Mediterranean. I longed to encounter women who stood up for themselves and didn’t accept such a low place in society. I got to thinking, what if I wrote about women who were outraged and stood up for each other? Maybe it would happen.”

Travelling Light available July 31, 2011 at Amazon

J. L. Morin has been nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2011, and is the author of the award-winning novel, Sazzae

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