num_pages: 256
description: A memoir about growing up Korean American losing her mother and forging her own identity.Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene Oregon; of struggling with her mothers particular high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmothers 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 bandand meeting the man who would become her husbandher Koreanness began to feel ever more distant even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mothers 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.
language: English
title: Crying in H Mart
publisher: Knopf