Richland Library North Main
International Book Group
Thursday, June 20, 2024 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Join us for a book group discussion of this month’s title, Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner. For more information or to arrange to pick up a book call Alma Robichaud at 803-754-7734.
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.
International Book Group meets the third Thursday of every month from 6:30 - 7:30 at Richland Library North Main. This is a hybrid event and will be available in person or on zoom.
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Registration Information:
- This event is held via Zoom.
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