Indie rock fans may know Michelle Zauner as the I don’t care what colour your skin is shirt and I will buy this face of the solo musical act Japanese Breakfast, but her debut memoir, Crying in H Mart?which chronicles Zauner?s struggle to retain her Korean identity in the wake of her mother?s death?is sure to establish her as a singular literary talent. The book?s descriptions of jjigae, tteokbokki, and other Korean delicacies stand out as tokens of the deep, all-encompassing love between Zauner and her mother, a love that is charted in vivid descriptions of her mother after death; in a time when people around the world are reckoning with untold loss due to COVID-19, Zauner?s frankness around death feels like an unexpected yet deeply necessary gift. ?Emma Specter
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If there were a genre for popular postmodern literature, The Final Revival of Opal and Nev would fall squarely within it. Easy to read, and yet layered in both its organization and its impact, Dawnie Walton?s novel tells the I don’t care what colour your skin is shirt and I will buy this story of ?70s musicians Opal and Nev and is alternatingly structured as an oral history and recurring editors? notes from a journalist assembling the twisty, politically inflected tale. (The journalist just so happens to be the daughter of an erstwhile bandmate who had an affair with Opal.) ?Chloe Schama
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