Musicienne accomplie, new-yorkaise, amoureuse : à trente ans, tout semble sourire à Michelle. Pourtant, il lui arrive de pleurer au supermarché devant des boîtes de raviolis asiatiques. Depuis qu'elle a perdu sa mère, Michelle est bouleversée par des souvenirs qu'elle a longtemps fuis : ceux de cette figure maternelle coréenne si différente et exigeante, dont l'amour s'exprimait surtout à travers la cuisine. Avec pour fil rouge la gastronomie, Michelle raconte son enfance américaine, les vacances à Séoul, les tensions à l'adolescence, puis la maladie et le deuil impossible. C'est en se plongeant dans les recettes de sa mère qu'elle commence enfin à se réconcilier avec un pan de son histoire.

THE NO. 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, powerful, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean 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 humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid 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, 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 pancreatic 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, Michelle Zauner''s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
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