这是一本非虚构的英文书籍（中文版《我们最幸福》），如果让我自己独立去阅读，可能坚持不下来，好在加入了阅读小组，还有针对每章节阅读相应的问题要回答，看到其他人在上面写的反馈，非常有感触，于是慢慢的就坚持下来了，终于读完了。
这本书说的故事？
这本书是记者采访六名脱北者的故事，让我对朝鲜政府有了更多的认识，以前只是依稀记得新闻里他们国家在试验核武器，觉得这个领导人还是挺倔强的，即使国际施压，依然继续。其他对于朝鲜就真的没有任何印象了。什么是脱北？他们为什么要脱北？付出了什么样的代价？
看完这本书的一些想法：
01 对书名的误解
这个书名可以说是非常讽刺了，起初还以为是歌颂幸福生活，结果确实黑暗料理。面对生活的苦难，故事中的人都勇于抗争，走出了属于自己的路，可她们真的毕竟是少数啊，这样想想细思极恐，大多数人还在那里，还在那个环境里。有时候想想不觉醒也挺好的，就在政府的洗脑下，相信着，生活着，走完一生。想必也是挺好的。有时候无知也是福。
Jun-sang 觉醒时刻：If everybody else felt such genuine love for Kim Il-sung and he did not, how would he possibly fit in? He had been contemplating his own reaction, or lack thereof, with an intellectual detachment, but suddenly he was gripped with fear. He was alone, completely alone in his indifference. He always thought he had close friends at the university, but now he realized he didn’t know them at all. And certainly they didn’t know him. If they did, he would be in trouble.
02 不想被饿死的逃离
整本书看下来，感觉他们只是从一个很深的坑跳到了稍微浅一点的坑，却也付出了极大的代价。她们是勇敢的，但也是自私的。她们真的只是想吃上白米饭（活着）而已。因为饿死的人越来越多，所以有些人开始逃离，逃离朝鲜政府的叫脱北者，其中Mi-ran家里逃出来三个人，剩下的家属因为她们脱北被投入了监狱，生死不知。而她们脱北的原因并不是早早谋划，而是被可能活活饿死的生活推着向前。母亲背负这样的重担疯魔了，Mi-ran即使生活越来越好，总会觉得自己不值得拥有现在的生活，负罪感如影随形。
Mi-ran 脱北代价：During the summer of 1999, about six months after the defecting family members arrived in South Korea, national security police had arrested both sisters almost simultaneously at home. Mi-ran’s oldest sister, Mi-hee, the family beauty who’d married a military official and who had been so generous about providing food during the famine, and her sister Mi-sook had led blameless lives; they were loyal to their parents, their husbands, and their children, and loyal to Kim Jong-il. They were taken away in the middle of the night
03 不容易被接纳的融入
当她们都成功进入韩国的时候，会先被怀疑，审问。经过一段时间的监控，学习，拿到政府给的钱和身份后。女性群体总是很快的融入生活，男性却相对缓慢很多。一切归零后的资源重组。Mi-ran在北朝鲜是背景有瑕疵的人，阶级比较低，在韩国有亲戚很快融入。Jun-sang在北朝鲜是阶级比较高的背景，拥有高学历，在韩国却举目无亲，一切独自从头开始。对于韩国民众来说他们是外来者。
04 伤痕累累的拥抱新生活
她们在朝鲜的时候几近饿死，一日三餐变两餐到一餐，吃野菜，水果果腹，路上经常能看到饿死的人，但是自己空空的肚子已经散发不出同情怜悯了。即使在新生活中吃上了白米饭，也会有内疚自责盘旋其中。她们活着了，可是内心的伤痕真的难以痊愈，唯有交给时间。
可笑的是当初对脱北者严防死守，对其亲属重重打击，而后因为国家经济每况日下，竟然允许脱北者给朝鲜的亲属寄钱。
即使困难重重，大家都在努力生活啊！！！
This is where I leave the story. North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world. Mrs. Song has just retired. Oak-hee runs her karaoke business in Suwon. Dr. Kim is in her last year of medical school and Jun-sang in his first year of pharmacy school. Mi-ran gave birth to her second child, a daughter, in December 2007. I can only excuse myself for leaving the story incomplete because the people in it, like Korea itself, remain works in progress.
写在最后：作者写这本书好似在控诉。可是当初朝鲜与韩国的分裂，其他国家也算是推波助澜了，只是每个国家站的利益角度不同而已。它们的分裂也让其他相邻的国家更加安全了，不是吗？
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