In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Sep 27, 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780143109747
Description: Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be "completely free," she had to confront the truth of her past. It is an ugly, shameful story of being sold with her mother into slave marriages by Chinese brokers, and although she at first tried to hide the painful details when blending into South Korean society, she realized how her survival story could inspire others. Moreover, her sister had also escaped earlier and had vanished into China for years, prompting the author to go public with her story in the hope of finding her sister.
Notes: 1010L Lexile
Table of contents: title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; label: Part One
title: North Korea; label: One
title: Even the Birds and Mice Can Hear You Whisper
pagenum: 9; label: Two
title: A Dangerous History
pagenum: 20; label: Three
title: Swallows and Magpies
pagenum: 29; label: Four
title: Tears of Blood
pagenum: 37; label: Five
title: The Dear Leader
pagenum: 45; label: Six
title: City of Dreams
pagenum: 58; label: Seven
title: The Darkest Nights
pagenum: 71; label: Eight
title: A Song for Chosun
pagenum: 81; label: Nine
title: Jangmadang Generation
pagenum: 92; label: Ten
title: The Lights of China
pagenum: 105; label: Eleven
title: Missing
pagenum: 115; label: Part Two
title: China; label: Twelve
title: The Other Side of Darkness
pagenum: 125; label: Thirteen
title: A Deal with the Devil
pagenum: 139; label: Fourteen
title: A Birthday Gift
pagenum: 151; label: Fifteen
title: Dust and Bones
pagenum: 162; label: Sixteen
title: Kidnapped
pagenum: 169; label: Seventeen
title: Like Bread from the Sky
pagenum: 181; label: Eighteen
title: Following the Stars
pagenum: 187; label: Part Three
title: South Korea; label: Nineteen
title: The Freedom Birds
pagenum: 201; label: Twenty
title: Dreams and Nightmares
pagenum: 213; label: Twenty-one
title: A Hungry Mind
pagenum: 223; label: Twenty-two
title: Now on My Way to Meet You
pagenum: 235; label: Twenty-three
title: Amazing Grace
pagenum: 245; label: Twenty-four
title: Homecoming
pagenum: 256; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 269