This month's selection is Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. The Brown Bag Book Club meeting will be held in Logan Auditorium, 12-1 PM on Wednesday, April 10th. The group meets on the second Wednesday of the month. Registration required. Visitors and new members are always welcome!
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.
NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction, Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography, Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Award Nominee, New York Times Best-Selling memoir
Copies of the print edition in regular and large print will be available at the library's Circulation Desk one month ahead of the meeting and audiobook copies can be found in the Libby app.
Please email Christina at [email protected] if you are having trouble borrowing a copy of the book.