While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America

· Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Maureen Taylor
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.

After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats.

In While Time Remains, Park highlights the dangerous hypocrisies, mob tactics, and authoritarian tendencies that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice. No one is spared in her eye-opening account, including the elites who claim to care for the poor and working classes but turn their backs on anyone who dares to think independently.

Park arrived in America eight years ago with no preconceptions, no political aims, and no partisan agenda. With urgency and unique insight, the bestselling author and human rights activist reminds us of the fragility of freedom, and what we must do to preserve it.

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4.7
20 reviews
Rob (NoProb4Rob)
May 13, 2023
I think I enjoyed the first book more as a lot of the content was fresh there, and repeated in this second book. I do appreciate the message though that we shouldn't take our freedom or comfort for granted and to be aware of voices who attack personal liberties in the name of their misguided ideologies. I also preferred the voice of the first book, someone who sounds more like the author than Holly Hunter.
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Romy Goodfellow
January 24, 2024
The narrator is stopping me from listing to this book. I absolutely loved the first book and I'm sure this book is just as powerful but the, read it as if it's whimsical fantasy fiction book, voice is not ok for me
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DEAN REED
May 14, 2023
Every American should read this book! Incredible perspective of where we could end up if we do not embrace the founding principles of our constitution.
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About the author

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and human rights activist. She escaped the brutal Kim dictatorship as a teenager only to fall victim to sex trafficking in China, before escaping to South Korea by walking across the Gobi Desert. Eventually making her way to America, where she is now a citizen, Park has dedicated her life to bringing attention to the horrors and atrocities taking place in her home country and in China. Park is also the author of the international bestseller In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom. She is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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