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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

✍️ Zauner, Michelle
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🏛 Knopf Publishing Group 📅 2021 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780525657743

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"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."--

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While emotionally potent, this work may disappoint readers seeking traditional culinary instruction or regional food history. It is not a cookbook despite the shop's categorization; rather, it is a personal narrative using food as metaphor. Those looking for practical recipes or objective historical analysis will find the content too subjective and sparse on factual data. The description admits its focus is on identity and loss, not technique. It suits fans of lyrical memoirs but fails as a reference text for cooks or historians. Buyers expecting kitchen guidance should be cautioned clearly.
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While emotionally potent, this work may disappoint readers seeking traditional culinary instruction or regional food history. It is not a cookbook despite the shop's categorization; rather, it is a personal narrative using food as metaphor. Those looking for practical recipes or objective historical analysis will find the content too subjective and sparse on factual data. The description admits its focus is on identity and loss, not technique. It suits fans of lyrical memoirs but fails as a reference text for cooks or historians. Buyers expecting kitchen guidance should be cautioned clearly.

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