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Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin

Please Look After Mom

A Novel

by Kyung-sook Shin
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  • First Published:
  • Apr 5, 2011, 256 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Apr 2012, 288 pages
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How could this only get one thumbs up?
For anyone who is a mother,who has lost a mother , or indeed simply thinks of her mother, this book is a must..I can't remember when I cried so much..
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