In Order to Live

Human rights activist Yeonmi Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually reached South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, realized 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 while blending into South Korean society, she realized how her survival story could inspire others. Her sister had escaped earlier and vanished into China for years, prompting the author to go public with her story in the hope of finding her.