Evening Book Discussion: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Schedule
Wed May 13 2026 at 07:30 pm to 08:45 pm
UTC-04:00Location
120 Main St, Setauket, NY, United States, New York 11733 | East Setauket, NY
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The May Evening Book Discussion will be Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.The discussion will be Wednesday, May 13, 7:30 - 8:45pm. Pick up a copy of the book at the Circulation Desk in the Library Lobby. No registration required.
Summary of the memoir: From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her 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 humor 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.
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120 Main St, Setauket, NY, United States, New York 11733, 120 Main St, East Setauket, NY 11777-1744, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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