Adult Nonfiction Book Discussion: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

In November, the Adult Nonfiction Book Group will discuss Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. (2009) Based on Demick’s interviews over a seven year period with six North Koreans who escaped the country and the regime. The vast majority of North Koreans know little more of the world beyond their borders than the rest of the world knows about their daily lives under the Kim Jong-il regime. Without easy access to healthcare, experiencing frequent food shortages, life for the average working family in North Korea under Kim Jong-Il’s rule is and was grim by Western…