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\nAbout the book:
\nFrom the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame\, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that share s the title of this book\, an unflinching\, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American\, losing her mother\, and forging her own identity.In t his exquisite story of family\, food\, grief\, and endurance\, Michelle Za uner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer\, songwriter\, and gui tarist. With humor and heart\, she tells of growing up one of the few Asia n 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 b and&mdash\;and meeting the man who would become her husband&mdash\;her Kor eanness began to feel ever more distant\, even as she found the life she w anted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer\, when Mic helle was twenty-five\, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brou ght her to reclaim the gifts of taste\, language\, and history her mother had given her.Vivacious and plainspoken\, lyrical and honest\, Zauner's vo ice 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 cheri sh\, share\, and reread.
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