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Join us at the Provo Recreation Center the 2nd Tuesday of each month for a book discussion with fellow seniors. Pick up a copy of Every Falling Star at the Community Desk of the Recreation Center.
About this month's book:
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
By Sungju Lee
Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his “brothers”; to be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.
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