Review: "The Only Child" by Mi-ae Seo has many flaws

“The Only Child: a Novel,” Ecco, by Mi-ae Seo, translated from the Korean by Yewon Jung

In “The Only Child,” Korean author Mi-ae Seo delivers a sometimes frightening psychological thriller with echoes of “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The Bad Seed.” But the characters are only explored on the ...