In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
A Life of Propaganda and Blind Loyalty Wow! Wow! Wow! Each page of this book exposes one new shocking revelation after another of life in North Korea. And a whole new nightmare begins when mother and daughter escape to China. Yeonmi draws an alarming image of life in North Korea where people are told that the supreme leaders are immortal and can read minds. It’s a country where critical thinking is forbidden, electricity is rare, people are taught to inform on one another, (sounds like Texas) and food is scarce. Starvation is an excruciating daily struggle. I cannot even fathom the extreme hunger of Yeonmi and everyone else in North Korea during the famine that started during the1990s. It’s tough to imagine such relentless horrors. A truly captivating, astonishing read! “I wasn’t dreaming of freedom when I escaped North Korea. I didn’t even know what it meant to be free. All I knew was that if my family stayed behind, we would probably die—from starvation, from disease, fro
