Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Crying in H Mart: A MemoirINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Named a Best Book of April 2021 by AV Club Bustle Entertainment Weekly Good Morning America Chicago Review of Books Fortune TIME CNN Underscored Apartment Therapy Popsugar Hello Giggles Business Insider The Millions Wall Street Journal Magazine Glamour From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir

• Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2020 pg. 67 (EAN 9780525657743, Hardcover)
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• Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2021 (EAN 9780525657743, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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).

REVIEWS

Michelle Zauner has written a book you experience with all of your senses: sentences you can taste, paragraphs that sound like music. She seamlessly blends stories of food and memory, sumptuousness and grief, to weave a complex narrative of loyalty and loss.
Rachel Syme

I read Crying in H Mart with my heart in my throat. In this beautifully written memoir, Michelle Zauner has created 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 themselvesand each otherin these pages.
Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance

A warm and wholehearted work of literature, an honest and detailed account of grief over time, studded with moments of hope, humor, beauty, and clear-eyed observation. This story is a nuanced portrayal of a young person grappling with what it means to embody familial and cultural histories, to be fueled by creative pursuits, to examine complex relationships with place, and to endure the acute pain of losing a parent just on the other side of a tumultuous adolescence . . . Crying in H Mart is not to be missed.
The Seattle Times

A profound, timely exploration of terminal illness, culture and shared experience . . . Zauner has accomplished the unthinkable: a book that caters to all appetites. She brings dish after dish to life on the page in a rich broth of delectable details [and] offers remarkably prescient observations about otherness from the perspective of the Korean American experience. Crying in H Mart will thrill Japanese Breakfast fans and provide comfort to those in the throes of loss while brilliantly detailing the colorful panorama of Korean culture, traditions and food.
San Francisco Chronicle