The other day, I randomly picked up a book from the “Little Free Library” box in my neighborhood (see http://www.littlefreelibrary.org). The book is called Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, written by Barbara Demick, a former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. I don’t usually dedicate blog space to discussing the books that I am reading, but felt compelled to make an exception for this eye-opening nonfiction exposé concerning the lives of North Korean defectors from...

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