Newly Notable -- Please Look After Mom

With all the recent media surrounding Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, now seems like the perfect time for Kyung-sook Shin's to arrive on the scene, finally translated to English and about to be released in America. It is already a bestseller in South Korea, the author's home. The novel focuses is the reflections and realizations of family members as they go about trying to locate their mother after she is lost in a Seoul subway station. What emerges is a picture of a woman that has spent her adult life with one goal: her childrens' success. The struggle, however, has gone unnoted by her children and husband until the days after she goes missing. Keep an eye on this one--predictions are for a great book club response!