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A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
by Eunsun Kim
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
tense
fast-paced
It’s an important biography and subject, but seems hastily told. For example, there are many statements that her Chinese “step father” was purely selfish and cared nothing for her, her sister, or her mother, but the accounts described don’t display this well - he seemed to have missed them and appeared genuinely happy when they reappeared. Too much telling the reader about a person’s character without showing it, or giving opinions about matters without giving facts to explain.