Crying in H Mart

De: Michelle Zauner

Narrado por: Michelle Zauner

Read by the author, Michelle Zauner, lead vocalist of Japanese Breakfast.

'A story that is both beautiful and heartbreaking; it is as raw as it is precious. I bawled my eyes out, but I also loved it and I hope you do too.' – Dua Lipa

From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity.

'Incredible . . . It absolutely wrecked me . . . So, so emotional' – Natalie Portman

'Crying In H Mart destroyed me . . . It’s fantastic.' – Olivia Rodrigo

'As good as everyone says it is and, yes, it will have you in tears. An essential read for anybody who has lost a loved one, as well as those who haven't' – Marie Claire

In this story of family and food, grief and joy, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school; of struggling with her mother’s 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, 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 pancreatic 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 honest, Michelle Zauner’s voice is as alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes, Crying in H Mart is an audiobook to cherish and share.

*Crying in H Mart was a #1 New York Times bestseller w/c 17.04.2023

©2021 Michelle Zauner (P)2021 Penguin Randomhouse LLC

Evocative and heartbreaking yet hopeful and humane

I walked and listened to this book, crying, my heart broken to pieces many times. I can relate to so many things, from identity crisis to losing my mother, then father, and me eventually. I've lived in Korea for almost two decades and I'll have to leave eventually, in a couple of years, probably. I'm still here but listening to all the Koreana listed here with surgical precision, from food, customs, superstitions, behavior... I already miss it all. Highly recommend.

A memoir of a self centered person

In this book everything revolves around the author’s relationship with her mother. Other people as if they don’t exist. There is also too much talk about Korean food.