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Crying in H Mart
Books | Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian American
4.1
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Michelle Zauner
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LISTIn this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
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Author
Michelle Zauner
Pages
256
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2021-04-20
ISBN
0525657746 9780525657743
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"I didn’t care for this book "
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Elizabeth Sanders
"If you know absolutely nothing about the book: I recommend it, it's well-written and honest like a good memoir should be. The following is a long-ish story that does contain spoilers. Back in December (2022) I bought two books, this one and Stiff by Mary Roach. In January (2023) I began reading Stiff (if you don't know, it's a NF book about human cadavers, and I like forensics). Within a few days my grandmother was unexpectedly hospitalized and doctors said she wouldn't make it. By the end of the week I was at her open casket funeral, and the few chapters I read stormed my mind with facts about dead bodies. Since I didn't feel comfortable reading Stiff, I picked up the other book sitting on my nightstand: Crying in H-Mart. Perhaps through the title, I should've known it wasn't a happy book, but I wasn't prepared to read about the long and agonizing pain of Michelle Zauner losing her mother to cancer. With death fresh on my mind, Zauner's words reopened wounds of those I'd lost and almost lost, and so I stopped reading. It wasnt until recently (end of September) that I decided to pick it back up again. I fought back tears, failed and cried terribly but I finished the book and it was wonderful. There were moments where I saw myself and I didn't expect to, where I was surprised to see the cultures I grew up with weren't so different (just the food!) Highly recommend :)"
"The way Michelle writes is pleasing, accessible, and relatable. Anyone who has grown up in the fringes of two worlds, belonging to neither, will find the stories gravitating and magnetic. I lost my mother in my rebellion, found her again, and lost her again in death. Mothers express love in their cooking. Seeking to find her love in food feels so close to the heart."
"A really poignant memoir on grief and (for lack of a better word) nostalgia. Be prepared to crave Korean food, it is the love language!"
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Tiffany Wysbeek
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