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Crying in H Mart

By Michelle Zauner
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Publisher Description

#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.

315 Reviews

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Loudly Crying Face“Crying in H Mart made me cry in my bedroom and hug my mum in a way she couldn’t understand. It’s one of those books that makes you look back on your entire life and understand it in a whole new light. There’s a universality in the complex relationship between immigrant mothers and their children that Michelle Zauner so beautifully expresses. It’s the first book I’ve read that has fundamentally shaken me as a person. It’s an arrow to the heart of every immigrant daughter.”
Multi-layered charactersRelatable charactersBeautifully-writtenConversationalHeartbreakingTragicMade me cryMeaningful
Loudly Crying Face“this book got me into memoirs. i love michelle’s music and learning more intimately about her life this way made me appreciate her music and artistry even more. this book is tragic yet relatable.”
Easy to readOriginalHeartbreakingTragicInspirationalMade me cryMemorable
Loudly Crying Face“So heartbreaking and full of hope- this is a great read. Highly recommend!”
Multi-layered charactersBeautifully-writtenHeartbreakingMade me cryMemorableMoving
Loudly Crying Face“I LOVED THIS BOOK. As an Asian American woman, I love to support other Asian women, and this book was so beautiful and the story was so well written. It was heartbreaking but also relatable in a sense regarding a mother and daughter relationship. So beautiful and I’m looking forward to reading this one again!”
Characters change and growBeautifully-writtenConversationalHeartbreakingDescriptiveMoving
Loudly Crying Face“I don’t think I’ve ever felt words on a page before until now.”
Diverse backgroundsBeautifully-writtenConversational

About Michelle Zauner

MICHELLE ZAUNER is best known as the two-time Grammy nominated musician 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).

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