Summary of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart

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Get the Summary of Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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 Korean-ness 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 25, 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
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638155690

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Summary of Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart

Contents

Overview

H Mart

Family and Korea

College

The Solace of Music

Coming Home

A Care Crew

Wait and See

Return to Korea

Love and Heartbreak in Eugene

The Funeral and Aftermath

Cooking and Self-Care

Honeymoon

Dreams of Kimchi

Life After Death

Author’s Style

Author’s Perspective

Overview

Crying in H Mart (2021) by Michelle Zauner is a memoir about her upbringing as a Korean American struggling with her identity and dealing with the untimely death of her mother from cancer.

H Mart is an Asian supermarket chain that provides Zauner and other transplanted Asian-Americans the tastes, smells, and products of their home countries and families. For Zauner, food was the most powerful connection she had with her mother. That connection lives on with the Korean recipes Zauner learns to make, reminding her of her mother’s cooking.

It wasn’t until the last few years of her mother’s life that Zauner truly understood and appreciated all the ways her mother had shown