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

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this. Every. Single. Person. Doesn't matter whether you like reading or not. The reality of North Korea, the psychological control of the dictators, the limitation of language for control, how difficult it is to grasp the very concept of freedom and the kind of an uphill struggle it can be to think for oneself, for someone who's never had choices and never had to think. The situations thousands of women and girls face on crossing the border to China (unknowingly) through trafficking and how hard it can be to just live even when you're finally "free." This book will leave you thinking thoughts that will never leave. And this isn't even fiction— this is how thousands live, this is what they all face. A must-read. 5/5.