Unveiling Secrets Across Borders: A North Korean Daughter’s Heartbreaking Journey in "The Boat Not Taken"
The narrator had two brothers, though their experience after fleeing North Korea was vastly different from hers. Male children were more highly valued than girls. A younger brother was placed with relatives, the older brother was away at school, while mother and daughter subsisted on their own, sleeping in refugee camps and shacks, sharing a single serving of rice a day, working multiple demeaning jobs. The younger brother predeceased his mother.
Like most compelling memoirs, and many novels, the narrator is on a journey of outer and inner discovery, the reader carried along through insights, surprises and discoveries. I won’t provide any spoilers here.
