↳ FEEL THE FISSURE
Please Look After Mom
by Kyung-Sook Shin
A Korean mother goes missing. Her family realizes they never knew her.
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you've taken someone for granted and are starting to understand what that cost
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A 69-year-old Korean woman gets separated from her husband at Seoul Station and disappears. Her adult children search for her and in doing so realize how little they knew her — the woman behind the mother, the life she had before and beneath her role in their family. Shin writes in second person — you lost your mother — which places the reader inside the guilt immediately. The most widely read Korean novel internationally and the one that captures something universal about what children fail to see in their parents until it is too late.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- South Korea • East Asia
- Voice
- Written by a South Korean author
- Themes
- GenerationsWitness
