Growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was taught her country was the best in the world. But living near the border with China, she caught glimpses of a different reality. As famine ravaged the nation in the 1990s, Hyeonseo began to question everything she’d been told.
At seventeen, she made the dangerous decision to escape. What she didn’t anticipate was a twelve-year journey filled with fear, danger, and a relentless fight to reunite with her family.
As the oppressive regime looms over every step of her path to freedom, Hyeonseo must outwit those determined to return her to North Korea. Can she lead her family to safety, or will the forces of one of the world’s most ruthless dictatorships prevail?
