This heartfelt memoir by Michelle Zauner is a powerful exploration of identity, grief, and the enduring bond between a mother and daughter. Through her vivid storytelling, Zauner invites readers to journey with her as she navigates her Korean American heritage, relationships, and personal growth. With its intimate anecdotes and lyrical prose, Crying in H Mart resonates deeply, offering a captivating portrait of love, resilience, and the power of food to connect us to our roots. A must-read for anyone seeking a moving and authentic memoir that celebrates the complexities of family and culture.

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• NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2021)
• Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography (2021)
• Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Award Nominee (2021)

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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