RaveThe Plain DealerThere\'s a simple way to determine how well a journalist has reported a story, internalized the details, seized control of the narrative and produced good work. When you read the result, you forget the journalist is there. Barbara Demick...has aced that test in Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, a clear-eyed and deeply reported look at one of the world\'s most dismal places ... Still, people survive. They dream. They love. And, sometimes, they escape. It is these stories that Demick tells in dispassionate, haunting detail.
