Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner 2021

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
memoir grief Korean American mother

Our Take

Zauner's mother died of cancer and the memoir is organized around food — Korean food, the cooking her mother did, the H Mart where Zauner goes to feel her presence. The grief is so specific it becomes universal. The chapter where she eats a meal her mother made for the last time will not leave you.

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