Program Type:
Books and ReadingAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
This adults-only group reads new, popular, and edgy titles at different restaurant locations in the community. Books with Bite meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm--refer to our monthly calendar for meeting sites.
This month's book pick is Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. Below is the Goodreads Snyposis!
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, 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.