THE NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast an unflinching
powerful deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race Korean food losing her Korean
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 humour and heart she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid 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
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 pancreatic 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 Michelle Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with
intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish share and
reread.
