Three teens huddled in a cave must find their way from China to North Korea in this intelligent thriller by a Korean-American professor. You can read the Monitor's full review of "How I Became a North Korean" here.
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10 best books of August: the Monitor's picks
Here are the 10 August titles given the highest marks by the Monitor's book critics.
8. 'How I Became a North Korean,' by Krys Lee
