Mom's son, daughter, and husband had a lot of time to ruminate, as they scrambled to try to find her. This book gradually took hold of my heart. This is a translation and I do not expect it to sound like standard English. I didn't mind it at all, once I realized what was occurring. It is oddly written in the second person in a way I never encountered before.

The book is written from four points of view after mom goes missing-a daughter, a son, her husband, and mom, herself. In addition, Mom has other untreated medical problems which might make her return and even her survival more complicated. It appears Mom may be in the early stages of Alzheimer's, although her family is in denial and seemingly unaware of this.

She was supposed to be following behind her husband and he never bothered to look behind him until the train was pulling away. In summary, the elderly 'Mom' of the family gets left behind on a subway platform in Seoul, Korea. I had been tossing around the idea of listening to this audio book for a long time and only recently acquired it, figuring it was about time. That is not always easy and too many superlatives can be off-putting. I tossed in bed in the wee hours of this morning, thinking about this story and wondering what I could say in my review to convey what it meant to me. The story is nothing if not a cautionary tale of the damage done by things left unsaid. This is a story I’ll never forget, and I have to admit to calling my own mother as soon as it was over, to repeat again how much I love her. We find what really transpired that day, and how she views her own life. In the penultimate section of the book, we finally get to hear from the mother herself. Each has a unique set of stories and regrets and as the reader, the full weight of each are put slowly and painfully on our shoulders. Each narrator knows something the others don’t.

We stay with them as they walk through this city of 25 million people, looking for only one and as the search continues, the full story of this woman’s life unfolds. We follow the family as they search for their mother a mother who has Alzheimer's a mother that never learned to read. And here we begin our story, told from 5 different points of view in 5 separate sections of the book. Arriving at Seoul station, the couple transfers to the needed subway line but as the doors close, and the train begins to move, the husband realizes that his wife is not with him she has been left behind. Each year the couple comes to the vast capital, which is the second largest metropolitan area with in the world, for this celebration. Their birthdays fall close together, so the family has taken to throwing a joint birthday celebration for them over the years. An elderly married couple travel by train from the rural village they live in to the vast city of Seoul.

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