![]() ![]() 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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