Grizelda Grootboom’s childhood was marked by family abandonment, homelessness, street life, and time in shelters and orphanage care in Cape Town, South Africa.  First raped as a 9-year-old child and later sold to sex traffickers at 18, her life in the sex trade meant brutal beatings, rape, and exploitation.  A survivor who escaped, Ms. Grootboom today is Founder of Survivor Exit Foundation NPC and South Africa Representative of the African Survivor Coalition, advocating for survivor reintegration, women’s rights, and protection from sexual exploitation.  In her memoir, Exit! A True Story, Ms. Grootboom recounts her experience moving to Johannesburg at the age of 18 in an attempt to start a new life, but instead being trafficked upon her arrival, tied in a room for two weeks and then forced to work as a sex slave—living hand-to-mouth, from one street corner to another, being pimped, being taught how to strip, and acquiring and using a variety of drugs to sustain herself.  EXIT! is not only the story of her life of prostitution and her ultimate escape from it all, but an insider’s view of the often-misunderstood world of prostitution and the harms and the horrors of sex trafficking.