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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick is the book we're discussing tonight in the book group I'm attending. It was not a journey I'd expected to take. When I woke up this morning and saw that Kim Jong-Il, the North Korean dictator had died, I was thankful that I had read Nothing to Envy a few months ago. About: As the title describes – ordinary lives in North Korea. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. In fact, it was on a whim that I downloaded Barbara Demick's affecting nonfiction book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, to my Kindle on Saturday night. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. When my sister Annie came home for my other sister Mollie's bridal shower in March, she had two books to lend to me -- Persepolis and this one. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick. The first chapter of Nothing to Envy begins with this mind-boggling picture. Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy; Ordinary Lives in North Korea (New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2010), 319pp.