Multicultural Books with Female Protagonists

Try these books if you're looking for:

• female protagonist
• focus on characters and relationships
• multicultural
• characters face difficult circumstances
• explicit content

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 
By Stieg Larsson
MYSTERY LARSSON Millenni #1
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pieced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.

Farishta 
By Patricia McArdle
F MCARDLE
An American diplomat is forced to confront the devastation of her past when she is assigned to remote northern Afghanistan.

A Tale for the Time Being 
By Ruth Ozeki
F OZEKI
Nao Yasutani is a Japanese schoolgirl who plans to kill herself as a way of escaping her dreary life. First, though, she intends to write in her diary the life story of her great-grandmother Jiko, a Zen Buddhist nun. But Nao actually ends up writing her own life story, and the diary eventually washes up on the shore of Canada's Vancouver Island, where a novelist called Ruth lives.

Sold 
By Patricia McCormick
F MCCORMICK
When she is tricked by her stepfather and sold into prostitution, thirteen-year-old Lakshmi becomes submerged in a nightmare where her only comfort is the friendship she forms with the other girls, which helps her survive and eventually escape.