[tps_title] 1. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner [/tps_title]
Michelle Zauner’s 2021 memoir Crying in H Mart was written following the publication of her viral New Yorker essay. In the essay, Zauner explored her grief and heritage, showing what she had learned from her mother, both emotionally and in the kitchen. Zauner found herself regularly taking pilgrimages to H Mart, looking at her cultural and culinary heritage and it is in H Mart that the memoir is rooted. ‘In the H Mart food court, I find myself again, searching for the first chapter of the story that I want to tell about my mother.’ This is more than just a memoir about grief, its an exploration of self and discovering Zauner’s own identity, both as the child of immigrants and finding her place and purpose in America as the front woman of the band Japanese Breakfast.
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