How I Became a North Korean

Named one of the most anticipated books of the second half of 2016 by The Millions"With How I Became a North Korean, Krys Lee takes us into urgent and emotional novelistic terrain...with heart and passion, Lee forges a world no other writer could create, one where the only response to longing and loss is learning to trust and hope again." –Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son and Fortune Smiles"This is one of the best books I've read in a good long while. While North Korea is at the center of the novel, the themes of love, family and our debt to our fellow human beings will resonate universally." –Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and Little Failure Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since childhood, most...