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Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
★★★★· Published 2021· 243 pages· read 2021
Zauner — the musician behind Japanese Breakfast — wrote this memoir after losing her Korean mother to cancer. It’s about grief, yes, but mostly it’s about food as love language, and what happens when the person who fed you is gone. Multiple friends have finished it in a single sitting, then called their mothers. You will too.
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