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

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Highly informative while also telling the stories of real people in an engaging way that will appeal to readers who usually struggle with nonfiction. Though the book was published in the 2000s and focuses on the 1990s and early 2000s, there is an afterword that gives a bit of insight into North Korea up until 2020. Other than certain scenes, usually about the famine, that were too dark and haunting for me to keep reading, I couldn't put this down and emphatically recommend it to anyone interested in the plight of North Koreans.