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92/100Author:
Michelle Zauner
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
April 20, 2021
Singer for the band Japanese Breakfast 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.
What The Reviewers Say
... powerfully maps a complicated mother-daughter relationship cut much too short.
From the moment we read the opening sentence of Michelle Zauner’s poignant memoir, we’re hooked. It’s a rare gift; Zauner perfectly distills the palpable ache for her mother and wraps her grief in an aromatic conjuring of her mother’s presence.
... a heartfelt, searching memoir.
It is not unusual for a memoir to describe the decline and aftermath of a loved one, and what it means to move on.
