The Girl with Seven Names

Hyeonseo Lee 2015

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
refugee memoir North Korea escape

Our Take

Lee escaped North Korea at seventeen, spent ten years hiding in China, and then went back to smuggle out her family. Each name she took was a new identity, a new lie, a new survival strategy. The memoir reads like a thriller but the stakes are real.

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