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

In some ways this was one a very difficult book to read because it was so hard to hear about the horrors that she lived through, in her words, in order to live. This book was a reminder that refusing to let refugees in doesn’t prevent them from coming but rather puts their well being further at risk and often creates dehumanizing or lethal situations for the refugees. This is interesting timing as while I was reading it the bodies of a drowned father and daughter were discovered trying near the border.