![]() ![]() Perhaps it’s because I’m in my twenties that I couldn’t help but feel this was essential reading. ![]() Throughout the narratives of the daughter, son, and husband, I was constantly pulled into a stream of memories about my own parents and grandparents. ![]() I have never felt a book feel so much like a mirror to me. I ultimately decided to read it only because it seemed short and would presumably enrich my experience in Korea - little did I know just how impactful it would be. ![]() Over time such preconceptions built itself into a bit of cynicism, perhaps also in part due to the fact that it was so well known yet not “canonical” - I took it to be something more like The Fault In Our Stars which I really didn’t like (but admittedly it is a young adult book). Because so many of my friends said Please Look After Mom was sad, I just assumed it would be another sentimental fiction about how someone loses their mother during the Korean war. Interesting how one can have so many preconceptions about a book based entirely on the title and what other people say about it. ![]()
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