Michelle Zauner – lead of the indie band called Japanese Breakfast – has always had a complicated relationship with her mother.
When Michelle was younger, her mother was her best friend and when she grew older, the two of them butted heads at every point.
And when Michelle was in her twenties, she began to see her mother as someone outside of her bubble and the two of them worked to make amends…and then, suddenly and heartbreakingly, her mother was gone.
Cancer.
And Michelle was left crying in H Mart with the realization that they have lost so much time together and there’s absolutely no way to get that back.
I had no idea what I was getting into… and now I’m just all out sobbing at the thought of losing my mother.
Best book I’ve read in a long time.
The way Michelle described her mother felt just so raw and real – the all-consuming love of childhood, the don’t-touch-me of teenagehood and the we-are-friends of young adult hood.
I just…I don’t really have anything else to say other than this book was amazing and I cannot get enough of it. Truly an incredible read.
huge thank you to Knopf Publishing Group for sending this my way
