Crying in H Mart : a memoir

Summary: "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."-- Amazon.

Record details

ISBN: 9781984898951
ISBN: 9780525657743
Physical Description: 239 pages ; 22 cm
regular print
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Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021
Copyright: ©2021
Badges:
- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 5 / 5.0

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

aCrying in H Mart -- Save your tears -- Double lid -- New York style -- Where's the wine? -- Dark matter -- Medicine -- Unmi -- Where are we going? -- Living and dying -- What procellous awesomeness does not in you abound -- Law and order -- A heavy hand -- Lovely -- My heart will go on -- Jatjuk -- Little axe -- Maangchi and me -- Kimchi fridge -- Coffee Hanjan.