Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Fascinating, heartbreaking, unbelievable, and really very disturbing. This is the story of living inside the world's most closed society as told by six people of varying backgrounds who manage to get out. It is also about the defectors' difficulties trying to integrate into South Korean society. The stories of the book's six main characters are riveting and the book reads more like a novel than a documentary. North Korea is a very scary country. I am amazed at the horrors humans can endure and inspired by their creativity in the face of starvation and the struggle to survive. We are so blessed to live in the USA.

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