The book club starts promptly at 2:00 p.m. in the Mary Cheney Library Lobby. Attendees will take a two-mile walk in the vicinity of the library, making stops for discussion. We will walk rain or shine, but in extreme weather, please call the library at 860-645-0821. On May 4th we will discuss “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner.
No registration is required for this free program. Copies of the book will be available at both library buildings. For more information on this event, please call (860) 645-0821.
About “Crying in H Mart” from http://www.goodreads.com:
A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
Michelle Zauner 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, 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. Her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer when Michelle was twenty-five forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.