Please Look after Mom |
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| Author:
| Shin, Kyung-Sook |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61173-086-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2011 |
| Publisher: | Center Point Large Print
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $33.95 |
Book Description:
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Please Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. As her children argue over how to find her and her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting. Have they lived up to her expectations? Was she happy? Through the piercing voices of daughter, son, and husband,...
More DescriptionPlease Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway. As her children argue over how to find her and her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting. Have they lived up to her expectations? Was she happy? Through the piercing voices of daughter, son, and husband, and through Mom's own words in the novel's shattering conclusion, we learn what happened that day and explore the even deeper mystery of motherhood itself.