Join us for our December Book Club Discussion! đź“š
We will be discussing Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.
NOTE - the location has changed, we will now be meeting at CHEFS HALL. This will most likely be our meeting location going forward. Chefs Hall opens at 10 so I have pushed the meeting start time back by 15 minutes. Please consider purchasing a coffee/tea (available at 10) or food (available at 11) to support our hosts if you can!
Pages: 239
Year: 2021
Synopsis:
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid 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, 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 pancreatic 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.
Some ground rules:
- This is a women-only event.
- Every attendee has to read the book before the meeting.
- This is a safe place. Please be kind and respectful.
-There is a $2 per meeting fee payable by cash. This is to help cover the costs of the Meetup organizer subscription. If this is your first meeting, it’s free!
