A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea

Eunsun clearly has no flair for storytelling and this is a fairly boring from a narrative standpoint; there's never any dramatic tension. It only merits three stars writing-wise but since she wrote the book as a sort of “fuck you” to the North Korean regime, I'm giving her a bonus star just to be supportive.

This book brings to light the injustices faced in North Korea by it's citizens. Eunsun Kim shares her long journey to freedom with eloquence. You feel the terrors she faced as a small child and her mother's struggle to do the “right” thing for her and her sister. My heart goes out to all those facing a similar fate. This is a terrific book to help explain some of the shrouded mystery that is North Korea.