Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

by Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland

Book Overview

Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household--her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. But it was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine resulting in more than a million deaths. In this harsh time, Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393249220
• ISBN13: 9780393249224
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Love this book!!

This book is amazing, it truly shows and describes the heart breaking events that happened in her life and how she views them. It moved me and made me think about how I am living. 10 out of 10, would recommend