Title Stars between the Sun and Moon : one woman's life in North Korea and escape to freedom / Lucia Jang and Susan McClelland.

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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.

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Burlington Public Library - Adult Department	B JANG	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	951.93 JAN	DUE 05-01-24
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography	B JANG	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography	B-JANG JAN	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	B JANG, L.	Check Shelf
Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction	B JANG	Check Shelf
South Windsor Public Library - Biographies	B JANG	Check Shelf
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Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department	951.9 JA	Check Shelf

Edition	First American edition.
Description	280 pages ; 25 cm
Summary	"An incredible memoir of North Korea by a woman who defied the government to keep her family alive. Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household--her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. But it was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine resulting in more than a million deaths. In this harsh time, Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally crossing the river to China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice. After giving birth to a second child, which the government ordered to be killed, she escaped with him, fleeing under gunfire across the Chinese border. This stunning demonstration of love and courage reflects the range of experiences many North Korean women have endured--loss of a child, starvation, imprisonment, and trafficking"--Provided by publisher.
Contents	Prologue -- Part One -- Part Two -- Part Three -- Epilogue -- Translator's Note -- Afterword: Bearing Witness / by Stephan Haggard.
Subject	Jang, Lucia.
	Jang, Lucia -- Family.
	Women -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
	Political prisoners -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
	Escapes -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.
	Women -- Korea (North) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Mother and child -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.
	Survival -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.
	Famines -- Social aspects -- Korea (North) -- History -- 20th century.
	Korea (North) -- History -- 1948-1994 -- Biography.
	Abused women. (OCoLC)fst00794870
	Famines. (OCoLC)fst00920590
	Forced labor. (OCoLC)fst00931594
	Human trafficking. (OCoLC)fst01739818
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Women prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01178398
	Korea (North) (OCoLC)fst01214151
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Added Author	McClelland, Susan.
ISBN	9780393249224 (hardcover)
	0393249220 (hardcover)

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