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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers

By Anna Franco

Dec 14, 2018
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New York: Penguin Books, 2016.

273 pp. $17 (paperback).

Yeonmi Park was still recovering from surgery, an unnecessary appendectomy due to a misdiagnosis, when she and her mother crossed a frozen river to reach China. The river was monitored by North Korean guards. This chilling scene—which captures the desperation of Yeonmi’s escape—is the opening to her …

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