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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers
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Yeonmi Park was only 21 years old when she began writing her memoir In Order to Live which tells the tale of how she and her mother escaped from a terrible life in North Korea, to be captured by human traffickers in China and eventually travel across a desert to Mongolia to find safety in South Korea. I have just finished this book and I’m left with a throat full of tears for this wonderful, amazing girl and her courage and power to talk out about things that have happened to thousands of people.
I thought I had an idea of what life must be like in North Korea. We have seen the articles and the documentaries and the news broadcasts about Kim Jong Un but nothing prepared me for the reality Yeonmi spoke about in her book. She is only two years younger than me and to think that she was freezing cold in her house, almost starving to death while I was probably visiting the zoo with my family or snuggled in bed reading Harry Potter is just insane to me. Her story really, really touched me and I can really see the special power she has to bring this story to light and make people perk up and pay attention.
Yeonmi Park’s voice is so brutally honest in this memoir. She really tells it how it was and even though she had to relive some horrible memories, she put them down for everyone to see - she even spoke about how her father, like most North Korean men, beat her mother at times which must have been hard for her to write considering the reaction this would have in the Western world and her father was her hero.
Yeonmi managed to capture her story in an honest and beautiful way that left me speechless and emotional but I really was touched by the clarity and purity of her writing. After everything she has been through, Yeonmi can still see the beauty in life, the kindness in people and joy in simple things such as education and simply being free to choose. She is an absolute inspiration and she is definitely someone to watch as she is going to become even greater than she is today.
Yeonmi Park was only 21 years old when she began writing her memoir In Order to Live which tells the tale of how she and her mother escaped from a terrible life in North Korea, to be captured by human traffickers in China and eventually travel across a desert to Mongolia to find safety in South Korea. I have just finished this book and I’m left with a throat full of tears for this wonderful, amazing girl and her courage and power to talk out about things that have happened to thousands of people.
I thought I had an idea of what life must be like in North Korea. We have seen the articles and the documentaries and the news broadcasts about Kim Jong Un but nothing prepared me for the reality Yeonmi spoke about in her book. She is only two years younger than me and to think that she was freezing cold in her house, almost starving to death while I was probably visiting the zoo with my family or snuggled in bed reading Harry Potter is just insane to me. Her story really, really touched me and I can really see the special power she has to bring this story to light and make people perk up and pay attention.
Yeonmi Park’s voice is so brutally honest in this memoir. She really tells it how it was and even though she had to relive some horrible memories, she put them down for everyone to see - she even spoke about how her father, like most North Korean men, beat her mother at times which must have been hard for her to write considering the reaction this would have in the Western world and her father was her hero.
Yeonmi managed to capture her story in an honest and beautiful way that left me speechless and emotional but I really was touched by the clarity and purity of her writing. After everything she has been through, Yeonmi can still see the beauty in life, the kindness in people and joy in simple things such as education and simply being free to choose. She is an absolute inspiration and she is definitely someone to watch as she is going to become even greater than she is today.