lomar 's review for:

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

5.0

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Wow. There's not much else that can be said as I finish reading these first-hand accounts of North Korean defectors. Nothing To Envy reads like a dystopian novel and I had to remind myself on several occasions that these were real people and their true-life stories. It was gut-wrenching, horrifying, and yet fascinating to hear how they survived, escaped, and slowly learned how to adapt themselves in a world so different from whence they came.