📖 peek insideCrying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer and songwriter. With humor and heart, she writes about growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's high expectations; of a painful adolescence; and of the diagnosis of her mother's terminal cancer. It is a powerful book about finding identity through heritage and the culinary arts of her Korean roots.
Widely read around the world. Estimated 5 million readers.
Notable Quotes
"It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to."
"I remember these things clearly because that was how my mother loved you, not through white lies and constant verbal affirmation, but in subtle observations of what brought you joy, pocketed away to make you feel comforted and cared for without even realizing it."
"Hers was tougher than tough love. It was brutal, industrial-strength. A sinewy love that never gave way to an inch of weakness. It was a love that saw what was best for you ten steps ahead, and didn't care if it hurt like hell in the meantime. When I got hurt, she felt it so deeply, it was as though it were her own affliction. She was guilty only of caring too much. I realize this now, only in retrospect. No one in this would would ever love me as much as my mother, and she would never let me forget it."
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