Crying in H Mart

A daughter celebrating the memories of her lovely mother in her endless mourning. It hits you in the gut and also gently strokes you at the back in a reassuring manner. This book is about letting the dead not die. This book is about keeping in touch with what's gone forever. If you have ever lost anyone you truly loved you will thank Michelle Zauner with all your heart. I took my first ever Korean dinner with the love of my life, thanks to this book.

I usually don't read this kind of genres but I am here to buy this one because of Jk 💜It's real a good product. You should waste your money here & you won't regret it.!Sometimes you will find it boaring but at the end you will get it all. 😊

I was so excited to read this book , I've heard nothing but great things about it and the storyline is so fabulous.The book came in in well condition

I feel i am not capable to rate this memoir. It was read in pieces, because if I read continuously I would not be able to recover.Seeing your parent disappear in air, is something no one should experience in such a young age. I hope whoever read this they get to spend long life with their parents have fulfilled years and get to say goodbye a natural way.

This book is a reminder of what love is in its entirety. Love between a mother and her daughter that are at times enraging and endearing. I was on an emotional roller coaster throughout the pages. Their dialogue and encounter are close to my heart. I have a mother. My mother has a mother and all of us have been there.

There’s a dialogue from the show- the office that says“I wish there was a way to know you are in the good old days before you’ve actually left them”. After reading this book, you’ll know you’re in the good old days and each and every moment spent with your loved ones will mean more than it did before. Nothing about the people, who make your life worth living, will go unnoticed.

Why had I not come across this book any sooner?! It's heartbreaking, funny, sad and a unique celebration of the Korean cuisine, as an expression of love. Books don't make me cry, but, boy oh boy, this one made me weep all over the pages. Definitely one of the best books I have read this year.

Michelle takes the reader on an immersive journey about her upbringing, her relationship with her parents, particularly her mother.It’s a good light read on relationships one has with one’s parents and not just the good part of it.

Heartbreaking reading about how our relationship with our parents became the key of who we are. It’s amazing how Michelle Zauner describes food; makes you drool all the time. Also, very insightful into Korean culture.

A capa comum não é muito boa, ela tem um material bem molinho. O livro é perfeito, Michele zauner é perfeita 💖

je l’ai lu en 2 jours (parce que je devais dormir) donc je le recommande vivementce n’est pas une lecture sur laquelle on doit se poser des questions existentiellesjuste se détendre et lire

Enjoyed the book. Interesting story about the author's life and how she managed grief through food.

I liked the book so much that I couldn’t stop reading it. It is basically the story of the author’s relationship with her mother and Korean food, and she relates them with such force that you almost feel you know her mother and can taste the food. The book is filled with information about Korean food, but otherwise her insights into Korean culture are pretty much limited to what she experienced in the apartment of her relatives during summer vacation and her mother’s cooking. She notes almost in passing that many Koreans where she grew up in Oregon were Christians, but never gives a thought to the reason nor does she even mention the two great traditions of Confucianism and Buddhism in Korea, not to mention the indigenous religion of Korea, Shamanism, in which women have the dominant role. In Korea, her descriptions are mainly of the food markets and the food she eats. It’s a shame that her mother did not speak Korean with her when she was growing up, since she would have had more insight into the culture. But then that was not the author’s goal, and we hear nothing else about Korean life. She even admits that she is not very familiar with K-pop although she performed a concert in Seoul with her band. She did relate a little bit about the lives of her aunts in Korea, which sounded very different from what divorced or single women had experienced years before.When I taught in Korea for a couple of years, my students often talked about their mothers, but rarely about their fathers. Fathers worked long hours and were much less often at home, and most women lost their jobs after marriage (at that time; no sure how the situation is now) and consequently were homemakers, as was her mother. Her descriptions of growing up with a housewife mother obsessed with Korean food (and if you aren’t familiar with that fantastic cuisine, this book will give you the urge to try it!) and her alcoholic, philandering father are very vivid and make them come alive, but her mother is the centerpiece. The author downplays her abilities, e.g., how did she get admitted to Bryn Mawr College if her performance in high school was that bad? But she did admit that she graduated with honors from it. Her mother certainly did not sound like a typical Asian “Tiger Mom”, pressuring her child to be the best in everything, although she did insist that Ms. Zauner attend college (neither parent had).She touches on the subject of being half-Asian in the USA, but as her mother said to her: “You are an American”, and I can’t imagine her living permanently in Korea and feeling at home. She seems more conscious of her heritage than others at times.Ms. Zauner has found her calling as an author, and the book is of much higher quality than her music although she has a beautiful voice. I had never heard of the band Japanese Breakfast, and I have to admit that I was surprised that it has had such success as well as European and Asian tours. I guess a lot of people like it, but I find that lacks moments of surprise, unexpected twists, an unexpected note or chord, that somehow fits right in and makes you sit up and say “Wow!”. Hopefully, she will devote herself to writing in the future!And I wish there were an H Mart near where I live and I could take a cooking class with her!