Under the headline “The Reluctant Memoirist,” South Korean-born author and TNR contributing editor Suki Kim has shared some fascinating perspective on her 2014 book Without You, There Is No Us. The book recounts Kim’s experiences as an ESL teacher in North Korea, where she ventured undercover in 2011 to glean an insider’s view of the secretive country.
Although the cover of Kim’s New York Times bestseller (pictured; click to enlarge) displays the words “A Memoir,” that was at the time and remains to this day something the author is not comfortable with:
In reexamining a terrible tangle of a situation, one can sometimes pinpoint that single moment when everything went wrong.
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