After I reviewed Please Look After Mom this past spring, I was contacted by the Korean Cultural Service of New York to serve as a judge for an essay contest they’d decided to host based on readers’ responses to the book.
It was both an honor and a pleasure to read the contest entries and experience Kyung-sook Shin’s novel anew through some of her fans.
The Korean Cultural Service announced the winners a few weeks ago, and has now published a collection of selected essays. You can download a PDF the collection — which includes all the winning essays and a short essay I was asked to write about judging the contest — here.
Mythili G. Rao 