September's Middletown Book for Discussion: Crying in H Mart

 

The MUM Book Discussion group will next meet on Wednesday, September 14.  Our title is Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart.  Here is a brief summary:

"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, 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 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."  

Here is where you can find the book:

• There are several copies available through Miami, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio.  
  
• Amazon has the hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook available, and Bookshop.org has links to purchase the title from independent booksellers.

Our group is always finding interesting titles to share, and we look forward to the new things you'll bring to the table.  In addition to discussing Homegoing, the group also shared these titles for consideration at their August 1 meeting:

• You Are A Badass At Making Money, Jen Sincero
• The Last Dress from Paris, Jade Beer
• The Next Thing You Know, Jessica Strawser
• The Humans, Matt Haig
• Resident Alien (Sci-fi network)
• Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
• Baudolino, Umberto Eco

We will meet at 12 pm on the 14th both in Room 123 in the Library and in Zoom at 

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Please come along to our discussion to share what you've been reading/watching/listening to/experiencing!

If you're looking for something interesting to read, check out our page of past and future reads at http://www.mid.miamioh.edu/library/bookdiscussion.htm

"Korean H-Mart, Fort Lee, New Jersey" by Ken Lund is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.