Sejal: The Walk for Water

by Brad Pauquette

In a single day, a world will change forever.

Sejal, a teenager living in a remote village in rural India, fetches water. It is her primary occupation and duty to her family. Her day will begin like all of the ones before it. But it will end like none she's ever experienced.

Based on actual events, Sejal: The Walk for Water explores the water crisis in India through the eyes of the people the shortage affects the most.

66 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 2013

About the author

Brad Pauquette is the director of The Company, a community of writers on a mission to change the world.

As a writing mentor and publishing expert, Brad helps authors unlock their potential and make cool stuff.

Brad is a follower of Jesus. He lives in Cambridge, Ohio, with his wife, Melissa, and their six children.

Since 2008, Brad has worked in various capacities in the publishing industry, starting several successful publishig imprints. Brad is also the founder of the Ohio Writers’ Association.

Check out "The Company Podcast with Brad Pauquette" on your favorite app. You can also start your journey with Brad with the 90-Day Novel Challenge.

Reviews

[Shannon Upton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic. In just sixty pages, Brad Pauquette brings to life the plight of so many women in underdeveloped countries. Rather than leaving you depressed, "Sejal: The Walk for Water" leaves you feeling uplifted and confident that you can help to lift the burden of others. Absolutely read this book and enjoy its beautiful simplicity. And its hope.

[Heather Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

There was a study published last fall in Science magazine which showed that readers of literary fiction have more empathy overall than those who read nonfiction or genre fiction alone. Sejal is an excellent example of this fact. Before I read this book, I knew, in theory, that clean water supply was a problem for people around the world. But now I have a face, a village, a story to help me translate those statistics into a human reality. Though Sejal is a fictional character, she and her village are vividly imagined and intimately described. As with all excellent fiction, the reader identifies with Sejal's humanity and shares her experience, and you cannot come to the end without caring deeply about the life-changing significance of a single well.

You'll want to help, and it's easy to do--proceeds from the book will help drill wells in rural India.

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a short read for such a long, arduous issue. Do take a look at this. Water, an essential part of life, is as central to a community as the well in the village of Muthuramapuram. For Sejal, water means safety and security, no longer a daily, dangerous walk. I have visited a slum near Delhi, and this book is remarkably realistic. It was like I could see the people there pouring from a new well, and it made me smile.

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not bad. It is actually a great story about what women in parts of the world go though to get water. The problem for me is a scene where the aid worker makes a comment about the Christian God to one of Sejal's friends. And while it wasn't mean spirited, and the book is based on a Christian group and worker who did work to get water to communities, it rubbed me the wrong way. The Christian aspect is there, and usually not in the reader's face which is why the conversation felt very wrong and out of place. In particular, because it concerned a woman's ability to have children and that is a very touchy issue.

[Svati · Rating 3 out of 5]

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