In Order to Live
by Yeonmi Park
Escaped North Korea at thirteen. Almost didn't make it.
you want to understand what it costs a young woman to cross the border and what waits on the other side
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Park fled North Korea with her mother at thirteen, crossing the frozen Yalu River into China — where she was sold into trafficking before eventually reaching South Korea and then the West. Her memoir is the dispatch from inside a journey that most accounts of North Korean defection skip over: the dangerous years in China, the exploitation, the second survival. Controversial in some details but the emotional truth is undeniable. A young woman's account of what it actually takes to get out.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- North Korea • East Asia
- Voice
- Written by a North Korean author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
