Summary of Yeonmi Park’s In Order to Live

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In Order to Live (2015) by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers is a story of escape, freedom, and learning to be compassionate with yourself. In her memoir, Yeonmi tells how she and her family tried to escape the dictatorship of North Korea. They fled to China in 2007, then to South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014.
Yeonmi tells the story of her childhood, how she crossed though China and Mongolia with her mother, and faced the hardships of human trafficking, to finally arrive in South Korea and be free.