Not a big reader but a massive Japanese Breakfast fan.
Really emotional but beautiful memoir about her relationship with her mum, intertwined with descriptions about yummy Korean food.
Feb 2, 2025
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A memoir documenting the grief the author faces coping with her motherโs 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 canโt recommend Crying in H Mart enough, it is truly an amazing memoir.
Feb 6, 2025
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My flatmate lent me this beautiful, moving memoir by Michelle Zauner (the lead singer of Japanese Breakfast), which is all about her losing her mum to cancer in her 20s. Her prose is gentle, precise and insightful, as she tries to make sense of her mum, and her half-Korean identity now that her link to it has left this world, through their shared relationship with, and love of, Korean food. Highly recommend - I don't even listen to Japanese Breakfast; she's just a brilliant, soulful writer in her own right ๐ณ
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Michelle is in the band Japanese Breakfast & her book is as beautiful as the music she gifts to this world. Itโs about many things โ 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
Apr 18, 2025
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