sherrimc 's review for:

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

5.0

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This book will stay with me for a long time. At the risk of sounding preachy, I think every American should read it. Though nonfiction, the book reads like a novel. The author (a journalist who lived in South Korea for several years) uses the very human and emotional stories of six North Koreans to shed light on a government and people that most of the world knows very little about. It's like reading 1984, except it's real with tragic consequences.