Backlist Book Club: Crying in H Mart

Name: Backlist Book Club: Crying in H Mart
Start: 2024-10-20T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-20T15:30:00-04:00
Location: 2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904

Schedule

Sun Oct 20 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904 | Lafayette, IN

Join us for our monthly book club discussion! All are welcome as we discuss Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. You do not need to register, simply show up to chat about the book (be okay with spoilers if you haven't finished!)
About the Book:
A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids 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, and 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 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.