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Reviews tagging 'Deportation'
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers
7 reviews
bringtheseoul's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Rape, Deportation, and Death of parent
zoegrace's review against another edition
5.0
The narration is steady, clear and easy to understand. I find her voice so soothing which makes the challenging parts of the memoir easier to read.Â
Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Medical trauma, Medical content, Death of parent, Child abuse, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Deportation, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual violence
eagerbones's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Rape, Deportation, Genocide, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Child abuse
Moderate: Death and Death of parent
Minor: Abandonment
clare_dv's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Grief, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Trafficking, Rape, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Child abuse, and Police brutality
Moderate: Cancer, Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, and Deportation
ajsterkel's review against another edition
Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, Trafficking, Cancer, Death, Sexual assault, Violence, Chronic illness, Deportation, Abandonment, Classism, Confinement, and Death of parent
graff_fuller's review against another edition
4.25
I love biographies, but autobiographies are even better. "Straight from the horse's mouth", as they say.
The traumatic escape of Yeon-mi Park from N. Korea, to China, to Mongolia, to S. Korea, onward...to where she now lives in America.
The peak behind the curtain of what is actually going on in N. Korea is amazing (in a bad way). Also, to read about the propaganda machine that is at work in N. Korea...for 70+ years, so that not even S. Koreans know HOW different these two cultures are now.
To hear about empathy and love being devoid in the average N. Korean. Seeing public executions and dead people in the streets...as normal events. Being sold into slavery and prostitution, just to survive and escape...for slavery and prostitution are one thing, but HUNGER is worse. Anything, just to eat food.
None of us in the US can understand these things, which I'm glad for, but we need to educate ourselves. We do not agree with the leadership of N. Korea, but the people of N. Korea are enslaved, themselves to this dynasty and deserve our pity. The need to help other escape this hell hole...as Yeon-mi says, it is the DARKEST place on the earth. If you look at satellite photos of the area...there are very few lights, compared to the bordering countries...it looks like a black hole swallowed the entire country. Shortages of electricity, food, are necessities normal...and this is how the leadership keeps the people in check.
You really have to read it in her own words. She escaped when she was 13, but it wasn't until years later that she truly had freedom from the oppression that ALL people of N. Korea accept as NORMAL.
Share this story to your friends and family. It is a VERY sad tale, but she's come out of it, scars and all...and is trying to shine a light on N. Korea...so the world will come to its (the enslaved people who live in this country, under THIS regime) rescue.
I'm so happy that I picked this book up and read her story. There will be images that I won't be able to get out of my head, but maybe this will help people to help these downtrodden people.
Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Death, Trafficking, Bullying, Confinement, Death of parent, Deportation, Murder, Physical abuse, and Police brutality
georgia_gabrielle's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: War, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Slavery, Deportation, and Kidnapping