Morgan’s Reviews > Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea > Status Update

Barbara Demmick is so talented at painting people’s lives in alien places - I couldn’t stop listening to this audiobook. It feels like she’s describing the society from 1984 or the indoctrination of Gilead and attempted foreign aid from Canada in the Handmaids Tale, especially as she describes the worst of the famine from the 90s. I kept forgetting that this all really happened - and some of it in my lifetime