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Crying in H Mart: A MemoirINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Named a Best Book of April 2021 by AV Club Bustle Entertainment Weekly Good Morning America Chicago Review of Books Fortune TIME CNN Underscored Apartment Therapy Popsugar Hello Giggles Business Insider The Millions Wall Street Journal Magazine Glamour From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir
Named a Best Book of April 2021 by - AV Club - Bustle - Entertainment Weekly - Good Morning America - Chicago Review of Books - Fortune - TIME - CNN Underscored - Apartment Therapy - Popsugar - Hello Giggles - Business Insider - The Millions - Wall Street Journal Magazine - Glamour
From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
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.
Review Citations:
- Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2020 pg. 67 (EAN 9780525657743, Hardcover)
- Publishers Weekly 01/11/2021 (EAN 9780525657743, Hardcover)
- Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 8 (EAN 9780525657743, Hardcover)
- Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2021 (EAN 9780525657743, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
- Library Journal 04/01/2021 pg. 72 (EAN 9780525657743, Hardcover)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MICHELLE ZAUNER is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy, shoegaze-inspired indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp (2016) and Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017).
REVIEWS
Michelle Zauner has written a book you experience with all of your senses: sentences you can taste, paragraphs that sound like music. She seamlessly blends stories of food and memory, sumptuousness and grief, to weave a complex narrative of loyalty and loss.
Rachel Syme
I read Crying in H Mart with my heart in my throat. In this beautifully written memoir, Michelle Zauner has created a gripping, sensuous portrait of an indelible mother-daughter bond that hits all the notes: love, friction, loyalty, grief. All mothers and daughters will recognize themselvesand each otherin these pages.
Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance
A warm and wholehearted work of literature, an honest and detailed account of grief over time, studded with moments of hope, humor, beauty, and clear-eyed observation. This story is a nuanced portrayal of a young person grappling with what it means to embody familial and cultural histories, to be fueled by creative pursuits, to examine complex relationships with place, and to endure the acute pain of losing a parent just on the other side of a tumultuous adolescence . . . Crying in H Mart is not to be missed.
The Seattle Times
A profound, timely exploration of terminal illness, culture and shared experience . . . Zauner has accomplished the unthinkable: a book that caters to all appetites. She brings dish after dish to life on the page in a rich broth of delectable details [and] offers remarkably prescient observations about otherness from the perspective of the Korean American experience. Crying in H Mart will thrill Japanese Breakfast fans and provide comfort to those in the throes of loss while brilliantly detailing the colorful panorama of Korean culture, traditions and food.
San Francisco Chronicle
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