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Please Look After Mom
by Kyung-sook Shin
I was annoyed by the "you" person narrative in ‘Please Look After Mom’ by Shin Kyung-Sook. You you you. You walk down the street. You fall down You pick yourself up. You laugh at yourself. You shake your head. It's a frame of reference that has always annoyed me. Yuck.
The second thing that annoyed me was this wretched, passive, selfish family profiled in the novel that only realized too late how much mom meant to them and how much she shaped them positively into successful people. The angst and self-recriminations of how they demeaned and ignored their mom rings false since they all put her out of their minds before she became lost. I can see such people being worried and angry, but this sudden guilt didn't follow logically. It was a good lecture, though. I can see moms giving this book to their adult children for Christmas.
The second thing that annoyed me was this wretched, passive, selfish family profiled in the novel that only realized too late how much mom meant to them and how much she shaped them positively into successful people. The angst and self-recriminations of how they demeaned and ignored their mom rings false since they all put her out of their minds before she became lost. I can see such people being worried and angry, but this sudden guilt didn't follow logically. It was a good lecture, though. I can see moms giving this book to their adult children for Christmas.