by Hyeonseo Lee, 2015, Kindle Edition, William Collins

If her story is all true, this is a great book about an incredible journey to freedom.  Each chapter ends with, Oh, No! What Next?  Just when you think she is finally out of danger, along comes something else that puts her even more in danger.  The narrative is compelling and keeps you wanting to know how the heck she managed to do what she did.

The author also nails what it must be like to migrate from a totally controlled dictatorship, where all of your decisions are made for you by the state, to a country where all of your decisions are your own, including the responsibility for the consequences.  Also, in many totally free countries, discrimination exists which makes it difficult to succeed unless you have a certain pedigree.

I enjoyed reading this book, even though parts of it were painful to imagine.