East Austin Book Club
Discussing books together, on the third Monday of every month at Native Hostel & Bar on Zoom, 7pm sharp
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.