Sungju Lee was a child of privilege in North Korea, ready to serve Kim Il-Sung. Then life changed at the age of eleven when his family is sent away from the capital of Pyongyang. Sungju realizes that people are starving outside the capital in the 1990s North Korean famine. He learns how to survive by forming a gang with a group of boys who soon become the only family he has. This is not an easy story to read. Knowing that is all true (with the exception of names) is hard to consider. These boys are left orphans as their parents go to find food. The lengths which they go to find food makes you want to cry. He survives to write this story, but it is not easy. It makes me realize again how much we take for granted.
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