Stay True- Hua Hsu I work at a coffee roaster and always have a podcast or audiobook on. This one got the tears flowing. It’s a wonderful book about friendship, loss, identity and the human tendency to be precious and protective of the things we love.
Michelle is in the band Japanese Breakfast & her book is as beautiful as the music she gifts to this world. It’s about many things — grief, growing into yourself, food as a love language, but ultimately all these things are lessons learnt while caring for her mum who had cancer and then losing her. A forewarning that this book made me cry multiple times, but i was truly so in awe of how thoughtfully honest Michelle was
A memoir documenting the grief the author faces coping with her mother’s cancer diagnosis and death. A beautiful and heartfelt story about family and identity as Zauner places her complex relationship with her mother under a microscope. They find understanding and comfort in food and through the author trying to connect with her Korean heritage more. Another name you might recognize more than Michelle Zauner is Japanese Breakfast. If you have ever listened to this band and thought highly of the lyricism, just know Zauner breathes all the same artistic talent and thought into her novel. I can’t recommend Crying in H Mart enough, it is truly an amazing memoir.
It’s a nice little dopamine hit and helps you connect to old familiar feelings of comfort. I started doing this after a bout of pandemic depression and it still helps me get out of a funk every once in a while.
