Where:
Roxbury Branch Library
149 Dudley Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/627158238382fa280092fc92
Indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Bestseller, Michelle Zauner will discuss her unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Following the talk, there will be an audience Q&A, and the program will conclude with an author signing facilitated by Frugal Bookstore.
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 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.
Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
This program will happen in-person and over Zoom webinar.
To attend in-person, please register on this page at the link on the upper right box.
To attend online, please register at this link.
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