In Order To Live

This month’s reading for my local Book group. A poignant, astonishing and heartfelt story (I managed not to cry almost until the last page). What an incredible strong and brave person Yeong-mi is. To have suffered so much yet to be so determined to still succeed at what she set her mind to and understand and speak out for the plight of others when she has herself had been so ill used shows a strength of character that I have seldom encountered. Both horrific and inspiring, well written, never dull and never sensationalist, even the most brutal episodes come across as something pretty mundane. She wasn’t party to any earthshaking events or seismic changes Just acts of casual cruelty or unlooked for kindness and you can never tell which it would be.