MICHELLE ZAUNER is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy, shoegaze-inspired indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp (2016) and Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017).
From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
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.
發表於2024-11-07
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這篇是在Michelle在CHF book talk之後寫的。原地址:[https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2021/5/22/crying-h-mart-tale-food-love-identity/] How do people feel when their mother passes away? “It felt like the world had divided into two different types of peop...
評分這篇是在Michelle在CHF book talk之後寫的。原地址:[https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2021/5/22/crying-h-mart-tale-food-love-identity/] How do people feel when their mother passes away? “It felt like the world had divided into two different types of peop...
評分Summary 每一位女兒都能得到共鳴的關於自己母親的迴憶錄 這是一本作者Michelle在她母親因癌癥去世後所寫的Memoir, 關於自己成長過程中與母親相關的迴憶,母親患病後至去世前半年裏Michelle對她的照顧,還有母親去世後的哀傷。Michelle把這本書的寫作過程稱為一種therapy, 治愈...
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Not until someone else describes it I realize how Asian/Chinese I am and always will be.
評分感謝齣版商給Cosmos Book Club的提前閱讀機會!之前在紐約客雜誌裏讀到同名文章時候就有一些共鳴,讀瞭書更是如此,因為更加深入,探討的角度更多。亞裔文化中母女關係我總覺得是個很復雜的題材,裏麵有很多錯綜復雜的情感,再加上作者傢庭環境是爸爸美國白人媽媽韓國人自己是混血美國人,(半)二代移民的身份掙紮,講述成長經曆的心路曆程讀起來還是挺心酸的。另一部分是講述自己作為獨生子女因為癌癥失去媽媽的過程,讀著讀著就掉眼淚。書裏也講瞭很多作者通過學會做韓國菜來增進自己和韓國文化的距離&自己的韓國身份的探討掙紮。推薦大傢pre-order閱讀!
評分Not until someone else describes it I realize how Asian/Chinese I am and always will be.
評分如何失去又如何retain memories?亞裔文化裏的母女關係總是讓人有很多共鳴,比如關於食物的執著與愛,比如對彼此的期待以及不解,比如從依賴到逃離。很喜歡對食物,做飯的過程以及那些依然在作者記憶裏關於文化的點點滴滴的描繪。最潸然淚下的片段是一個做飯的片段。有很多很喜歡的小細節和一些背景裏的感受。
評分Not until someone else describes it I realize how Asian/Chinese I am and always will be.
Crying in H Mart 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載