. 일시 : 4월 9일,  10:30am
. 장소 : TCC @ wisma Atria
. 책 : Please Look After Mom
. 읽을 분량 :   first section, Nobody Knows
<Discussion Questions >
1.  While second-person (“you”) narration is an uncommon mode, it is used throughout the novel’s first section (the tale of the daughter, Chi-hon) and third section (the tale of the husband).  What is the effect of this choice? How does it reflect these characters’ feelings about Mom? Why do you think Mom is the only character who tells her story in the first person?

2. What do we learn about the relationship between Chi-hon and her mother?  What are the particular sources of tension or resentment between them?  Why does Chi-hon say to her brother, “Maybe I’m being punished...” (p. 68)?

3. Why is it significant that Chi-hon is a successful writer, and how does her career affect her position in the family? What does this mean for her relationship to her mother, who is illiterate? How does it happen that her mother begins to treat Chi-hon like “a guest” when she visits home (p. 17)?

4. Mom’s life has been defined by her relationships to others and the needs of her family.  When her daughter asks her, “Did you like to cook?” how does Mom’s reply summarize the divide between her own and her daughter’s generations (p. 57)? How is the generational gap between you and your parents, and/or you and your children, at all similar to, or different from, this one?