In Mother and Child we see the foundations of what later became Kang Kyeongae's most famous work - Salt. It takes place in the community of Korean diaspora in China soon after the 1931 Manchuria incident. The main character remains unnamed, the only two named characters being her son Seungho and her husband (whose name I forgot). She is only referred to as Seungho's mother for the entirety of the story. Seungho's mother is on the street with nowhere to go after her husband dies and tries going to her brother-in-law for help. She gets harshly rejected there. In the end she wanders in the snow looking for a familiar house that is no longer there as her son is bound to die of whooping cough.
I give this story three stars because I think that Salt is the better version of this story, Mother and Child seems far too unfinished.