A review by curlymango
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Full on sobbed multiple times. Absolutely heartbreaking and so empathetic towards its characters. The (mostly) second-person perspective makes much more sense at the end and is an incredibly unique and moving aspect of the book.

The chapters about So Nyo’s children and husband read as both universal stories that you as a reader can place yourself in and letters from Mom/So Nyo to her family, like the ones she would have Chi Hon transcribe. Curious to know how this was translated from the Korean text.

Made me deeply reexamine pretty much all of my familial relationships, and all the love, regret, and reconciliation wrapped up in those bonds.