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Crying in H Mart
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Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

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Grief, culture, and cooking: a daughter loses her mother and tries to hold on to her through Korean food and the H Mart aisles they shared.

The musician's (Japanese Breakfast) memoir of her Korean American identity, her intense and difficult relationship with her mother, and her mother's death from cancer — with food as the thread of memory and grief.

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