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Quick Overview
Please Look After Mom is an internationally sensational book that has sold over 1.5 million copies in Korea. Translated into English from the original Korean, the book explores how individual members of a family are traumatized by the sudden and unexplained disappearance of "Mom" at the Seoul Station subway. A stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their missing mother and their discovery of the desires, heartaches and secrets they never realized she harbored within draws an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.
" You will never think of your mother the same way again after you read this book" (From the publisher.)
" You will never think of your mother the same way again after you read this book" (From the publisher.)