In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers

300 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be "completely free," she had to confront the truth of h...

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emotional 81%
sad 69%
inspiring 65%
informative 63%
dark 58%
challenging 45%
reflective 42%
tense 35%
hopeful 33%
adventurous 9%

Pace

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fast 27%
slow 6%

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