When a sixty-nine-year-old mother vanishes in a crowded Seoul subway, her family's search becomes a probe into memory, duty and the private life they never fully saw. The search surfaces misunderstandings, quiet sacrifices and the painful gaps between who we think someone is and who they are alone.

The story moves through the alternating voices of the daughter, son and husband, and concludes with the mother's own perspective. Each narrator reinterprets events and uncovers small truths, building a layered portrait that is both intimate and revealing.

For readers of character-driven, international fiction, this novel offers a clear-eyed look at parent-child bonds, regret and the ways ordinary lives contain hidden depths.

• Shifting narrators that deepen perspective
• Set in Seoul with keen domestic detail
• 272 pages of introspective storytelling

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