Please Look After Mom

A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea & poised to become an international sensation—*Please Look After Mom* is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, & of the desires, heartaches, & secrets they discover she harbored within.

On a family visit to the city, Mom is right behind her husband when the train pulls out of Seoul Station without her, & she is lost, possibly forever. As her children argue over how to find her & her husband returns to their countryside home to wait for her, they each recall their lives with her, their memories often more surprising than comforting. Have they lived up to her expectations? Was she happy? 

Through the piercing voices of daughter, son, & husband, & through Mom’s own words in the novel’s shattering conclusion, we learn what happened that day, & explore an even deeper mystery—of motherhood itself.

At once steeped in the beauty & complexities of the East & rich with a universal tenderness, *Please Look After Mom* has a revelatory emotional power. You will never think of your mother the same way again after you’ve read this book.