May Book Club: “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner

By GZip / May 16, 2024

Please join us for May’s Asian American Heritage Month Memoir Selection, “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner on Thursday, May 16th at 7pm.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American–“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR).
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 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 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 plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.

Books are available in the shop and online: bookshop.org/shop/alibibookshop and audio: libro.fm/alibibookshop

Date/Time

Date(s) - Thu, May 16, 2024
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/1621112172033365

Location

Alibi Bookshop
624 Marin St., Vallejo