#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.
