Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner, 2021
A daughter's memoir of kimchi, scratch cards and a Korean mother—about learning to feed yourself after loss.
Michelle Zauner
Zauner records as Japanese Breakfast; the memoir grew from a 2018 New Yorker essay of the same title, written after her mother's death.
Feels like grief, family and tenderness.
The way a mother cuts meat, relearned from a stranger on YouTube.
Maangchi peeled the skin off an Asian pear with the giant knife pulled toward her, just like Mom did when she cut Fuji apples for me after school on a little red cutting board, before eating the left-over fruit from the core. Just like Mom, chopsticks in one hand, scissors in the other, cutting galbi and cold naengmyeon noodles with a specifically Korean ambidextrous precision. Skillfully stretching out the meat with her right hand and cutting it into bite-sized pieces with her left, using kitchen scissors like a warrior brandishes a weapon. Books by Michelle Zauner
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