Need to finish this now....couple more chapters and it's a pigeon wrap!

Fascinating. Shocking. Heartbreaking.

The lives of people in a brainwashed country, who love and strive for success just like anyone else.

The reality that Demick never visited Chongjin is all but forgotten a few pages in.

Just finished it! Demick is a fab writer who really adds depth to the characters and the town of Chongjin.

This book is wholly depressing, but makes you appreciate what freedoms we have as American citizens. Having nothing to aspire to can do a number to one's psychology.

Think your life's a drag? Think the political landscape in America is a problem? Read this and think again.

Intense and maddening.

a bit of reading before bed. I've been anxious to start this.