具体描述
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.
作者简介
MICHELLE ZAUNER is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy, shoegaze-inspired indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp (2016) and Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017).
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读后感
Personal This book is so personal that I'm not sure if serving the audience is its first priority. Sometimes, I feel I was just peeking at a stranger's unretouched diary. I won't complain too much though as I was secretly just looking for a good cry via som...
Summary 每一位女儿都能得到共鸣的关于自己母亲的回忆录 这是一本作者Michelle在她母亲因癌症去世后所写的Memoir, 关于自己成长过程中与母亲相关的回忆，母亲患病后至去世前半年里Michelle对她的照顾，还有母亲去世后的哀伤。Michelle把这本书的写作过程称为一种therapy, 治愈...
Tears will be shed reading this touching memoir from Michelle about her relationship with her mum. It is a very unique and personal experience because I can relate to many different aspects of the book (food and the identity crisis, relationship with the pa...
小时候极力隐藏自己的Koreaness，但在妈妈患癌不幸离世之后在韩国澡堂时害怕搓澡的阿姨在自己身上找不到这一份Koreaness. 很有意思的一点是作者以前把妈妈喜欢的泡菜的发酵理解成一种controlled death——比起自然的死亡，被盐腌制的一棵大白菜释放出二氧化碳，盐也在其中被酸...
用户评价
那本书简直是一场情感的过山车，从头到尾都紧紧抓着你的心不放。我得说，作者的叙事功力非同一般，她能用最朴素的词句描绘出最复杂的人类情感。读着读着，我发现自己完全代入了那个情境，仿佛身临其境地体验着角色的喜怒哀乐。尤其是在描绘家庭关系的那几段，细腻得让人心疼，那些藏在日常对话里的爱与隔阂，被挖掘得淋漓尽致。我常常需要停下来，深吸一口气，才能继续往下读，因为那种情绪的冲击力太强了。它不仅仅是一个故事，更像是一面镜子，让你反思自己与身边人的相处模式。那种淡淡的忧伤，时不时地涌上心头，但又不至于让人完全沉溺其中，因为总有那么一丝希望的光芒在闪烁，指引着你向前看。这本书的节奏把握得非常好，起承转合都恰到好处，让你在不知不觉中就被故事牵引着走到了终点，读完后久久不能平静，那种回味悠长的感觉，是很多作品望尘莫及的。
坦白讲，这本书给我的整体感觉是极其真实和接地气，没有太多故作高深的文学腔调，却有着直击人心的力量。作者的叙述视角非常独特，仿佛她就是站在你身旁，用一种非常私密、近乎耳语的方式，与你分享着一个深刻的个人经历。这种“亲密感”是这本书最吸引我的地方，它打破了作者与读者之间的壁垒，让人感觉自己被完全接纳和理解。书中对文化冲突和身份认同的探讨，也处理得非常得体，没有陷入刻板印象的窠臼，而是展现了在两种文化夹缝中生存的复杂心绪。读完后，我产生了一种强烈的冲动，想要去重新审视我生命中那些被我忽略的小细节，那些曾经以为早已过去的事情，似乎又重新浮现出来，带着新的光泽。这是一本需要用心去“感受”的书，而非仅仅用眼睛去“阅读”的书。
这本书的文字风格简直像是一场华丽的味觉盛宴，虽然内容本身可能有些沉重，但作者的笔触却异常的轻盈且富有层次感。她对于细节的捕捉能力令人叹为观止，那些看似不经意的场景描写，实则蕴含了巨大的情感信息量。我尤其欣赏她如何巧妙地将环境描写融入人物的内心世界，让读者在感知外部世界的同时，也能清晰地触摸到角色的灵魂波动。这不是那种平铺直叙的流水账式写作，而是充满了隐喻和象征，每一次阅读似乎都能发现新的含义。我甚至可以“闻到”那些文字中描绘出来的气味，感受到那种特定的氛围。这本书的结构也十分巧妙，它并非完全线性的叙事，而是穿插着回忆与现实的片段，这种跳跃反而增强了故事的张力和真实感，让人感觉像是在拼凑一段尘封已久的记忆碎片，充满了探索的乐趣。
我必须承认，这本书的文字密度极高，每一句话似乎都经过了千锤百炼，没有一句是多余的赘述。它在情节推进上可能并不算快节奏，但内在的情感张力却始终维持在一个高位。作者成功地营造出一种既疏离又亲密、既现代又怀旧的独特氛围。最让我印象深刻的是她对记忆碎片化处理的手法，这非常符合我们现代人记忆的运作方式——跳跃、重叠、被情感重新着色。每次翻阅，我都会被她精准的用词和巧妙的比喻所折服，感觉自己仿佛在阅读一首散文诗，只是它的主题更加宏大，涉及的生命课题更为深刻。这本书的价值在于，它不仅提供了一个引人入胜的故事，更重要的是，它提供了一种看待世界和处理个人情感的新视角，一种更具韧性和理解力的视角。
这本书的魅力在于其对“失去”这一主题的深度挖掘，但它并非一味地渲染悲伤，而是展现了人们如何在残缺中寻找和构建新的意义。作者的表达方式非常克制，却又异常有力，她懂得留白，懂得让读者自己去填补那些未尽之言。这种“留白”的处理，使得这本书具有了极强的开放性，不同的人在不同的生命阶段去阅读，都会有截然不同的感悟。我个人非常喜欢其中关于时间流逝的哲学思考，它不像教科书那样生硬说教，而是将这些宏大的命题，巧妙地融入到日常生活最琐碎的片段中。读这本书，就像是进行了一场漫长而深入的自我对话，它迫使你直面自己内心深处那些不愿触碰的角落。它不是一本让人读完就束之高阁的书，更像是可以陪伴你走过人生几段重要时期的“心灵指南”。
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. //感谢Jae Yeon Kim的推荐！
没想到是Japanese Breakfast本人，我好爱她，the new yorker同名文章也很值得读
有点无趣。弃
屡屡鼻酸，too relatable. 和母亲的对抗与和解，通过食物追忆探寻identity和cultural roots. Michelle的声音有一种unfeigned vulnerability.
每本母女之间的回忆录对我来说都是一种学习，好像是在“偷窥”别人家里，那种复杂的无法割舍的情感是怎样的。读书的时候也一直在想我妈会做的菜，我一道都不会。
