Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
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Hardback
h216 x 135mm - 256pg
5 Aug 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781529033779
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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 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.
A book you experience with all of your senses: sentences you can taste, paragraphs that sound like music. [Zauner] seamlessly blends stories of food and memory, sumptuousness and grief, to weave a complex narrative of loyalty and loss. -- Rachel Syme A gripping, sensuous portrait of an indelible mother-daughter bond that hits all the notes: love, friction, loyalty, grief. All mothers and daughters will recognize themselves - and each other - in these pages. -- Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance A wonder: A beautiful, deeply moving coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, love and grief, food and identity. It blew me away, even as it broke my heart. -- Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me The book' s descriptions of jjigae, tteokbokki, and other Korean delicacies stand out as tokens of the deep, all-encompassing love between Zauner and her mother, a love that is charted in vivid descriptions of her mother after death; in a time when people around the world are reckoning with untold loss due to COVID-19, Zauner' s frankness around death feels like an unexpected yet deeply necessary gift. * Vogue US * It is [Zauner' s] ability to convey how her mother' s simple offering of a rice snack was actually an act of the truest love that leaves the most indelible impression. * Refinery 29 * Crying in H Mart is palpable in its grief and its tenderness, reminding us what we all stand to lose. * Vulture * Incandescent. * Electric Lit * When a loved one dies, we search all of our senses for signs of their presence. Zauner' s ability to let us in through taste makes her book stand out-she makes us feel like we are in her mother' s kitchen, singing her praises. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * Lyrical . . . Earnest . . . Zauner does a good job capturing the grief of losing a parent with pathos. * Publishers Weekly *
Michelle Zauner is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy, shoegaze-inspired indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp (2016) and Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017).
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529033779
Published: 5 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 256

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