Crying in H Mart
By Michelle Zauner
- Genre
- Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House)
- Publication year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9780525657743
Crying in H Mart is a memoir by the musician and writer Michelle Zauner, who records as Japanese Breakfast, published by Alfred A. Knopf in April 2021. Expanding a 2018 New Yorker essay, it recounts her mother's death and her Korean American identity. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Grief and garlic, karaoke and kimchi: Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart braids food, family and loss into one of the most affecting memoirs of the decade. When Zauner's mother is diagnosed with cancer, the Korean dishes they shared become a language for everything that goes unsaid, and later a way to hold on to a heritage she feared losing. The musician behind Japanese Breakfast writes with sensory immediacy - the snap of a persimmon, the sting of a rebuke - and refuses easy consolation. intendle recommends it for anyone who has stood weeping in a grocery aisle, or who understands that identity is often inherited through the stomach. A #1 New York Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice winner, it began as a viral essay and grew into a modern classic of the food-and-family memoir. Tender, precise and unforgettable.