This book was a bit hard to get through because it was very slow. It's about a Korean family. The mother of the family is missing after a trip to Seoul. The mother suffers from dementia. She and her husband take a trip to Seoul on a train. Unfortunately, her husband gets on the train, but she gets caught up in the crowd and doesn't make it on the train. The story revolves around finding her, and how the loss affects her family. The family talks about their memories of her and how they feel about each other. It was a really good story. ( )

Nobody can go away from reading this book without deciding to treat his or her mother better, to listen to her when she talks, and to treasure her more. ( )

A very highly regarded and very well-reviewed book that, in the end, left me pretty much unaffected. Mom goes missing and the rest of the book is about her children and her husband as they reflect on Mom even as they search for her. Nothing exceptional, to my mind, about the recollections and stories, happy moments, regrets, etc. Disappointing. ( )

I did not understand this book AT ALL. ( )

Not my kind of novel. Sappy. I’m sure there were some things I didn’t understand that would have made me appreciate it more. A lot of it was narrated in the 2nd person “You went to the house, then you walked in the door.” Nothing wrong really that I guess, but it was sometimes confusing, and got a little tedious. I did like that it was set in Korea, I suppose if it had been the same basic novel but set in the US with Americans I would’ve quit reading it after a few chapters. Supposedly it was a massive hit in Korea… but then there are plenty of immensely popular books here that I have no interest in either. ( )