Reviews tagging 'Child death'
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers
10 reviews
vintage_library's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Rape, Child death, and Death
writingcaia's review against another edition
5.0
This is not a life many can ever relate to or even conceive off.
While I was reading I shared some sentences out loud to my partner and this comment he made was really poignant to my review of the book “if you ever heard the words poop thief in any other context (that wasn’t that of the memoir) you’d think people were joking.” Well, it was no joke in North Korea.
Another thing that really hit me hard is that when she finally reaches South Korea, after extreme poverty, famine, fear and repression (to say the least) in North Korea, naively being human trafficked to China, raped at 13, she starts reading a lot to try and catch up and it is then she realizes how limited her vocabulary was. Because, in North Korea the state wants you to live a small limited life, to be so naive as to never conceive of anything besides those teachings, but as she then learned new vocabulary she felt a new world had opened up, new feelings, new expression, new life, freedom.
It is not an easy read as you can tell by the hints I left behind so thread lightly if you’re easily triggered.
This was one of the most eye opening memoirs I’ve read, a reality I knew was bad transformed into something beyond comprehension, because even reading about it gives me only a glimpse of the horrific lives North Koreans are subject to.
At such a young age Yeonmi is free, an example of fight, love, perseverance, and an advocate for her people. I truly hope she can also one day fulfil the promise she made her grandmother and father, and see her people free and an united Korea.
Graphic: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Slavery, and Trafficking
Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicide, Child abuse, and Rape
Famineabsolute_bookery's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Police brutality, Slavery, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Hate crime, Violence, War, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts
kiaragennaro's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Violence
mxpringle's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Murder, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Confinement, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Child death, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Abortion, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Stalking, War, and Xenophobia
nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Trafficking, and Violence
Moderate: Abortion, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Excrement, Gore, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Slavery, and Stalking
mishshell's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Child death
elliemarshall19's review against another edition
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence
niamhellen's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, Cancer, Child death, and Death of parent
phantasyia's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence
Moderate: Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Police brutality