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#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 LIST
In 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.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Vintage
Publication date : March 28, 2023
Edition : Reprint
Language : English
Print length : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1984898957
ISBN-13 : 978-1984898951
Item Weight : 12.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5.19 x 0.76 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Grief & Bereavement #3 in Asian & Asian American Biographies #5 in Culinary Biographies & Memoirs
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Customers say
Customers describe this memoir as a heartfelt journey of love and loss, with a beautiful tribute to mother-daughter relationships. The writing is extremely articulate, with one customer noting how it takes readers inside the author’s home. Customers find the book enthralling and enjoyable, with one review highlighting how food serves as a unifying force throughout the narrative.
