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Please Look After Mom

Kyung-Sook Shin,

Chi-Young Kim (Translator)

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May 04, 2021 Nadine in NY Jones marked it as did-not-finish

Shelves: fiction, translation, audio, korean

Not my thing.

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Mar 06, 2019 Karen rated it really liked it

Shelves: travel-2019, travel-the-world

This is the third book I've read by Shin. I love her writing style, and to be honest, I can't decide between this or I'll Be Right There is my favorite by her.
I think what these characters go through when they find out that their mother is missing, is something we all go through, particularly when our mother dies: who is this person we call mom? Do we know who she is outside of our relationship with her?
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Oct 08, 2011 Sera rated it really liked it

Shelves: library, literary-fiction

This book is very good. It's about a Korean wife and mother who goes missing. Each part of the book is told from a different perspective of someone in the family. I teared up a few times while reading this book, because the mother reminds me of my mother and her mother, making me realize that there really aren't many mothers who are like them anymore, including me, and I'm not sure whether that's a good thing or not. ...more

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Jun 08, 2013 Andy Plonka rated it really liked it

Gives a good look at family dynamics in a Korean family.

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Jun 18, 2014 Tiffany rated it it was amazing

a must read!

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Aug 04, 2020 Ann rated it it was ok

I expected a feminist text but instead I got hit by a 273-page thick guilt card, over and over. I welcomed it during Section 1, it was good to reexamine my relationship with my mom, but the use of the second voice and the nonstop self-flagellation all throughout the book made this an annoying read.

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