Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

by Michelle Zauner

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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; of struggling with her mother's high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; and of treasured months spent with her grandmother in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond over food.

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.