Please Look After Mother

This beautiful book Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin was very moving. An elderly woman becomes separated from her husband at Seoul train station and then is missing. Her family desperately try to find her, putting up flyers and searching places she might be. The story is told in different perspectives firstly in the second person by her elder daughter, then her husband and son and then by the mother herself in the first person. The reader learns about her life through these characters and the sacrifices she made for her family. Those sacrifices were taken for granted at the time she made them. Her family always came first for her. Only now that she is missing does her family appreciate the woman she was and how she influenced their lives. Highly recommended 5/5.