Crying in H Mart: A Memoir (Unabridged)Indie rocker Michelle Zauner went viral in 2017 with a New Yorker essay about mourning her Korean-born mother in the aisles of her favorite Asian-American supermarket. Zauner’s memoir expands on that story with a deeply emotional series of vignettes about growing up as a mixed-race child in Eugene, Oregon. We follow Zauner as she bonds with her traditionally minded mother over their shared love of Korean food and watch them grow apart when she pursues a music career against her mom’s wishes. Delivered in a straightforward reading that’s as beautifully unadorned as her this-is-what-happened prose, Zauner’s book is full of vivid moments. Her depiction of her mother’s sudden illness and death is devastating, although her stories about the rom-com-like scramble to marry her grad-student boyfriend while her mom is still around had us laughing through the tears. It’s when Zauner talks about eating and preparing food that Crying in H Mart becomes more than just another memoir about loss. It’s also a celebration of pleasure, experience, and life that’ll leave you with a serious craving for bulgogi and bibimbap.