Crying in H Mart Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart

A Memoir

    • 4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
    • $13.99
    • $13.99

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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2021
April 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
9.1
MB

Customer Reviews

k.k.p.l ,

love!

This book clung to me; it feels cathartic, real, and warm. Felt a little slow at parts but so glad I read it.

ianb73 ,

Extremely touching memoir

Extremely touching memoir

Praterpixy1 ,

Cried while reading

Spoiler alert: get ready to cry like a baby! It’s like reading about my own life. I thought so much about my mom, my family, my childhood. So much nostalgia. Loved reading it yet it was so difficult to keep reading because it was so much heart breaking.

More Books Like This

Bastards: A Memoir Bastards: A Memoir
2015
Amen, Amen, Amen Amen, Amen, Amen
2009
Ghostbread Ghostbread
2010
Splinters Splinters
2024
Stealing Buddha's Dinner Stealing Buddha's Dinner
2007
This Mean Disease This Mean Disease
2005

More Books by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart Crying in H Mart
2022
Aos Prantos no Mercado Aos Prantos no Mercado
2022
Płacząc w H Mart Płacząc w H Mart
2023

Customers Also Bought

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
2022
Beautiful World, Where Are You Beautiful World, Where Are You
2021
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
2019
Yellowface Yellowface
2023
Hamnet Hamnet
2020
Klara and the Sun Klara and the Sun
2021