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 about growing up Korean American, losing her 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 humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian 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 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 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.
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评分##A moving commemoration of the author’s mother and the Korean half of her identity. The book serves as a great reminder to cherish your loved ones in life WHILE THEY ARE STILL ALIVE. No one in this world but those who truly love you would pay detailed attention to your idiosyncrasies and idiocy alike. Don’t feel too entitled; it’s not a birth right.
评分##每本母女之间的回忆录对我来说都是一种学习,好像是在“偷窥”别人家里,那种复杂的无法割舍的情感是怎样的。读书的时候也一直在想我妈会做的菜,我一道都不会。
评分##写得细腻感人,现在读这种书都会自我带入妈妈的角色了,也是好想要个女儿啊…我对于自己的身份就没有什么attachment,会留给孩子什么呢?
评分##没想到是Japanese Breakfast本人,我好爱她,the new yorker同名文章也很值得读
评分##母亲和食物,催人泪下
评分##「I feel like i am losing a part of my culture because of death.」It was like she was talking to me, to someone who has experienced loss...A pure and touching memoir.「A book to cherish, share and reread.」yes, it is.
评分Not until someone else describes it I realize how Asian/Chinese I am and always will be.
评分##作者身为一个混血儿,隔年暑假会跟妈妈到韩国探亲,站在她身边的妈妈如同一个注脚,解释了她为何在韩国、长相略约像韩国人。可是当妈妈去世后她独自一人在韩国时,不仅路人对她是谁感到困惑,她或许也对自己是谁产生了困惑。成长过程中她一直抗拒自己身上韩国的部分,可是当妈妈罹患癌症之后,她开始试图通过食物与妈妈以及韩国文化重新建立联系,探寻被自己遗失的美好韩国文化遗产。作者说从来没有人告诉过她人生病后逐渐枯萎的过程是什么样子的,她措手不及。所以她在书中详细记录了妈妈是如何被癌症一点点侵蚀掉的,希望能够帮助他人。同时这也是作者自我治愈、从丧母之痛中恢复的方法。作者拥有的清晰流畅的表达能力,是我渴望的。
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