Virtual Book Club Discussion - Crying in H Mart

AAPI Montclair

Join AAPI Montclair for a discussion of Michelle Zauner's  bestselling memoir on grief, family, and food.

Join AAPI Montclair member Michelle Anh Germinario for a discussion of Michelle Zauner&#x27;s memoir Crying in H Mart. This virtual book club is part of a community read co-sponsored by Montclair Public Library. Attendees will receive a Zoom link through email.The community read, Montclair Reads &quot;Crying in H Mart,&quot; will be from April 15 to mid-May. Don&#x27;t miss the related events, especially the kick off on April 15: Open Book / Open Mind: Michelle Zauner in conversation with Elisabeth Egan at First Congregational Church. The in-person event is sold out and there is no waiting list, but there are still <a href="https://asm.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&amp;int_class_id=46871&amp;int_category_id=0&amp;int_sub_category_id=0&amp;int_catalog_id=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">free Zoom tickets</a> available. Receive a paperback copy after March 28 while supplies last. Click on the links to order the book in <a href="https://catalog.bccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=83.1033.0.0.7&amp;pos=1&amp;cn=1892426" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">print</a>, <a href="https://ebccls.overdrive.com/ebccls-montclair/content/media/5639811" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">eBook</a> or <a href="https://ebccls.overdrive.com/ebccls-montclair/content/media/5637153" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">eAudiobook</a> on Libby/OverDrive. AAPI Montclair is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that represents Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and families in the Montclair, NJ area and across New Jersey. Our mission is to create a more inclusive community by uplifting the varied experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, advocating for AAPI rights and representation, and promoting awareness and education around AAPI culture and history. Michelle Anh Germinario founded and leads AAPI Montclair’s book clubs for the organization’s 900+ members. She is a high school English teacher who has also taught at the college level. Germinario is a first-generation Vietnamese American and the proud daughter of a refugee. A resident of Montclair, she was featured in the Bergen Record about her activism and biracial identity.About Crying in H Mart from the publisher:From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR) • Celebrating over one year on the New York Times Best Seller List!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.About Michelle Zauner from the publisher:Michelle Zauner is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy, shoegaze-inspired indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp (2016) and Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017).

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