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How I Became a North Korean

by Krys Lee

Length 6 hours 30 minutes

Language English

Narrators Janet Song, Ewan Chung & Raymond J. Lee

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Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi has had to fend for herself since childhood, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Danny is a Chinese-American teenager of North Korean descent whose quirks and precocious intelligence have long marked him as an outcast in his California high school. These three disparate lives converge when each of them travels to the region where China borders North Korea-Danny, to visit his mother, who is working as a missionary there, after a humiliating incident keeps him out of school; Yongju, to escape persecution after his father is killed at the hands of the Dear Leader himself; and Jangmi, to protect her unborn child. As they struggle to survive in a place where danger seems to close in on all sides, they come to form a kind of adopted family. But will Yongju, Jangmi, and Danny find their way to the better lives they risked everything for?

Fiction Fiction - Literary

Krys Lee is the award-winning author of the short-story collection Drifting House. She has been a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Story Prize Spotlight Award, the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association, and a finalist for the BBC International Story Prize. Her fiction, journalism, and literary translations have appeared in publications such as The Kenyon Review and The Guardian. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Yonsei University in South Korea.

Janet Song is an award-winning audiobook narrator. The recipient of multiple Earphones Awards, she was named one of Audiofile’s Best Voices of 2008 for her narration of Haruki Murakami's After Dark and John Burnham Schwartz's The Commoner. She lives and works in Los Angeles as an actor on stage and screen and has appeared in The Bling Ring, Palo Alto, The Fosters, and Shameless.

Ewan Chung is an audiobook narrator and a film and television actor. A SAG-AFTRA member, he is best known for his work in Bones, Monday Mornings, and Desperation. Born in Washington DC and raised in Virginia, he currently resides in Los Angeles.

Raymond J. Lee is an experienced film and television actor and audiobook narrator. His television credits include It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and How I Met Your Mother, and he's had notable supporting roles in Farah Goes Bang and A Leading Man. A founding member of the LA-based clown troupe Four Clowns, he can also be heard in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. For more information, visit www.theraymondlee.com.