NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR) • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LIST
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.
If you’re Asian, you might relate to this the way I did. It’s heart-wrenching and I cried many times reading this book. Definitely recommend
Crying in H Mart - Good plot - too long
Bewertung am 17.08.2022
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
Already during the first pages, I wanted to put the book away, but then the story finally took off and became interesting. But there are often rampages, and everything is too long for my taste. But in the end, a book is a very subjective thing.
I ran aground towards the end and can't seem to want to finish it, even if a few pages are missing.
In diesem Buch schreibt Michelle Zauner, die Musikerin aus der Band Japanese Breakfast, über ihre Erfahrung mit der Erkrankung und dem darauffolgenden Tod ihrer Mutter. Autobiographisch erzählt sie wie es ist, als Koreanerin in Amerika aufzuwachsen und sich dennoch ihrer Kultur fremd zu fühlen. Ihre Mutter zeigte ihre Liebe hauptsächlich durch koreanisches Essen, bis sie erkrankte und es nun an Zauner lag, für die Mutter zu sorgen und ihr wiederum durch das Kochen ihre Liebe zu zeigen. Wunderschön und emotional geschrieben, vermittelt Zauner ihre Erfahrung und verarbeitet ihre Trauer. Dabei versucht sie durch das Kochen koreanischer Gerichte ihrer Kultur wieder näher zu kommen und einen Teil ihrer Mutter bei sich zu behalten. Vorsicht: Das Lesen dieses Buches macht hungrig.
