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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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"Please Look After Mom" follows a family whose matriarch goes missing from a train station in Seoul while traveling with her husband. Each section is told by a different family member, revealing new insights into the mother's life and family secrets.
My own brother was missing last year for 24 hours before we found his body (victim of a drug overdose). I cannot imagine what it would be like to have a family member missing for an extended period of time, because those 24 hours were the worst of my life. There are still so many questions I have for him, and I found myself feeling a very personal connection with the characters in Kyung-Sook Shin's novel.
It really makes you reconsider how well you know those closest to you, what has been left unspoken, and what loved ones are afraid to say to one another. Very powerful, and leaves you wanting to revisit those relationships in your life before it's too late.
My own brother was missing last year for 24 hours before we found his body (victim of a drug overdose). I cannot imagine what it would be like to have a family member missing for an extended period of time, because those 24 hours were the worst of my life. There are still so many questions I have for him, and I found myself feeling a very personal connection with the characters in Kyung-Sook Shin's novel.
It really makes you reconsider how well you know those closest to you, what has been left unspoken, and what loved ones are afraid to say to one another. Very powerful, and leaves you wanting to revisit those relationships in your life before it's too late.
The form initially put me off, but got used to it after the first two pages and it was gorgeous. Unconventional, surprisingly engaging. It had me calling my mom.
Really great! The different perspectives were a bit of a suprise but really added to the story. I liked the beginning the most, but the ending was also splendidly done. I like that on the one hand Korean authors seem to make their theme a bit too explicit, for my taste, but that it does allow them to bring depth and nuance to it because of this. There is just no going around it. I highly recommend this book even if you are not interested in Korean culture, it is quite generalisable to other cultures as well.
I really appreciated this book.
Wholesome story about family, loss and regrets. About the life of a woman that nobody truly knows.
The writing was poetic and the characters flawed, really liked the story.
Would recommend
Wholesome story about family, loss and regrets. About the life of a woman that nobody truly knows.
The writing was poetic and the characters flawed, really liked the story.
Would recommend
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Not my favorite book. Took me a pretty long time to get through because I wasn't drawn to keep picking it up. The shifting first person, second person, third person point of view narration threw me a bit. Each time it changed it took me awhile to figure out who the new narrator was. Ok but nothing to write home about.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced