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

4.0

An amazing account of life in North Korea as told through the stories of 6 "typical" North Koreans. Growing up in the United States, in a country founded on democracy, this seems so entirely unreal. Yet, it is. It saddens me that while we have survived with excess in so many ways, that people in the world managed to barely survive through the famine years of the 1990s by means I would have never imagined.

Barbara Demick did an amazing job of portraying lives from different backgrounds, different levels of education, and different families. An addictive read for sure.