Heartbreakingly amazing. I had no idea what I was in for when I started reading, but when I started I simply couldn't stop, and read the whole book through in a few hours. The detail with the shifting narrators and point of views were very effective, and emotive. At the start of every new narrator t...
A just-unique-enough book, and the kind that makes you realize that in so many cases, families are alike almost everywhere. Interesting (and successful) use of second person, multiple character points-of-view, and through those povs and the book's structure, a careful unfolding of the story that mak...
This story is beautifully written. It is the poignant tale of a mother who goes missing and the family that discovers how great the loss of this parent really is, only after she is gone. It captures the universal dynamic of family life everywhere, in all its shapes and forms, with its hopes and drea...
An elderly mother goes missing in Seoul after accidentally separating from her husband at a train station. Her grown up children and husband search desperately for her over, plastering the city with posters. As they search over the next few days, then weeks and months, they each reflect on their ...
Incredibly poignant book. It's about sacrifices mothers make for their children, about appreciating people while they are still with us, it's about regrets. It actually made me cry in a couple of places.
Wow, this one will tug on your heartstrings. What are heartstrings, by the way? I don't think that I even knew that I had them until diving into this book.
This is a zinger of a novel. (And why, why, why, I ask, am I reading this novel at this time? So mysterious.) No one is looking after Mom and, after a while, Mom just wanders off. Her family doesn't even realize she is missing until she has been lost for some time. And where does she go? No one know...
Book at Bedtimehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011jw8d/Book_at_Bedtime_Please_Look_After_Mother_Episode_1/After the Rashomon-esque memories of the family, it is rather a relief when we get to mum's recounting. Lots of ::Life's Lessons:: and ::Heartstrings Pulled:: here. Blergh
I am hoping that this book picks up. It is good, but not great and def. not what I expected. There are way too many flashback scenes, which I am hoping will have relevance to the mother's disappearance.ETA(04/27/11): This book def. picks up..it takes almost 100 pages in, but a whole different set of...
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