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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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This is not a book that will restore your faith in humanity. It’s an honest look at what communism and oppression do to society at every level.

Yeonmi published this memoir at age 21. I hope she gets to add to it in the future. She was born in North Korea. At 13 she and her mother escaped to China and after another harrowing two years, they escaped to South Korea. Yeonmi has accomplished a lot so far, and I’m sure she will continue to do so. The descriptions of North Korea were straight out of O
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