Please Look After Mom by South Korean Writer Kyung-Sook Shin

“It’s been one week since Mom went missing.” So begins Kyung-sook Shin’s best-selling Korean novel Please Look After Mom, a haunting and deceptively simple book about a mother’s sudden disappearance. After losing his wife at a Seoul train station, a father tries to piece together her slow, ambiguous dissociation and his part in her depression. A daughter learns that she never knew her mother the way she thought she had. A son realizes how much his mother gave up for him to succeed. And…

I’ve read this book a year ago and was not planning to tell a story about it… maybe because it was a year ago?! But some thoughts on books have to be shared… I was sitting on my bed, staring at my books on the shelf. A book that I’ve finished reading over a year ago caught my attention. It’s not mother’s day and it’s not my mom’s birthday, but I just wanna share my thoughts on this book. Last year, I was chatting with my brother (who also loves reading) on Facebook and asked him what books…

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