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.
| ISBN: | 9781529033793 |
| Publication date: | 3rd March 2022 |
| Author: | Michelle Zauner |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 239 pages |
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
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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.
Crying in H Mart features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Memoirs, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Coping with / advice about personal, social and health topics, Mixed heritage / mixed race groups or people, Migration, immigration and emigration, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Family and health, Health & Fitness, Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: general, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic studies, Social groups, communities and identities, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, Social and ethical issues
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Crying in H Mart was written by Michelle Zauner and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Crying in H Mart has 239 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.
