具體描述
From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
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.
用戶評價
##The book is characterized by Michelle’s identity and abilities to evoke images through the smallest of details. Love can be complex yet difficult, and it is represented in many ways, especially food, through which man searches for a piece of home or themselves. Likewise, readers empathize with the author to echo ourselves. //感謝Jae Yeon Kim的推薦！
評分##簽到瞭喜歡的書，在翻譯瞭，明年上半年應該能做齣來
評分##沒想到是Japanese Breakfast本人，我好愛她，the new yorker同名文章也很值得讀
評分##如何失去又如何retain memories？亞裔文化裏的母女關係總是讓人有很多共鳴，比如關於食物的執著與愛，比如對彼此的期待以及不解，比如從依賴到逃離。很喜歡對食物，做飯的過程以及那些依然在作者記憶裏關於文化的點點滴滴的描繪。最潸然淚下的片段是一個做飯的片段。有很多很喜歡的小細節和一些背景裏的感受。
評分##亞洲人最能理解這種食物承載一切的情緒，食物既能觸發情緒也能充當therapy。Chongmi是一個極為典型的韓國/東亞母親：精緻，嚴格，給人陣痛和愛，身為混血的Michelle總在懷疑自己的白人父親是否真的有Asian fetish，或許也是典型的Wasian心境。Japanese Breakfast成功瞭，她現在給Mitski開場（多希望有生之年我能再看見一次），和年少時崇拜過的Karen O對談，一定是因為媽媽在天堂踩著上帝的脖子要求他給Michelle好運吧。（在控血脂期讀這本格外煎熬，每天都想吃韓餐；以及恰逢她新專巡演，火速購買明年在倫敦的gig票，I’m having a major Japanese Breakfast Fever.)
評分##很sad的一本書，但除瞭sad好像沒有其他的point。不太明白為什麼這書最近這麼火。就感覺一直在堆砌事實，但又缺少中心思想。講cancer的part不如《when breath becomes air》震撼，講asian American的部分基本就是已經聽爛瞭的每個asian American的心理故事，nothing special。
評分##作者身為一個混血兒，隔年暑假會跟媽媽到韓國探親，站在她身邊的媽媽如同一個注腳，解釋瞭她為何在韓國、長相略約像韓國人。可是當媽媽去世後她獨自一人在韓國時，不僅路人對她是誰感到睏惑，她或許也對自己是誰産生瞭睏惑。成長過程中她一直抗拒自己身上韓國的部分，可是當媽媽罹患癌癥之後，她開始試圖通過食物與媽媽以及韓國文化重新建立聯係，探尋被自己遺失的美好韓國文化遺産。作者說從來沒有人告訴過她人生病後逐漸枯萎的過程是什麼樣子的，她措手不及。所以她在書中詳細記錄瞭媽媽是如何被癌癥一點點侵蝕掉的，希望能夠幫助他人。同時這也是作者自我治愈、從喪母之痛中恢復的方法。作者擁有的清晰流暢的錶達能力，是我渴望的。
評分##很sad的一本書，但除瞭sad好像沒有其他的point。不太明白為什麼這書最近這麼火。就感覺一直在堆砌事實，但又缺少中心思想。講cancer的part不如《when breath becomes air》震撼，講asian American的部分基本就是已經聽爛瞭的每個asian American的心理故事，nothing special。
評分##The book is characterized by Michelle’s identity and abilities to evoke images through the smallest of details. Love can be complex yet difficult, and it is represented in many ways, especially food, through which man searches for a piece of home or themselves. Likewise, readers empathize with the author to echo ourselves. //感謝Jae Yeon Kim的推薦！
