Crying in H Mart

I've been wanting to read Michelle Zauner's debut memoir for a while and I'm very, very happy to have finally read it. As a casual Japanese Breakfast listener, I didn't know what to expect going into it. I actually found it to be more interesting that it focuses more on her life rather than her music career. I found her story about her coming up and her relationship to her mother to be very heartbreaking and captivating. Her cathartic experience of cooking and food as a connection point between her and her mother was very descriptive and beautifully written (emphasis on beautiful) in a very graceful way. Its subject matter covers on loss and death so although its page length is light, the subject matter itself can be quite heavy (but not all heavy). “Crying in H Mart” is absolutely a must read for me and it's right up there with Tegan and Sara Quin's “High School” as one of my favorite memoirs. After reading, it definitely makes me appreciate Zauner more as a writer and makes me want to listen to her music a lot more now.