After Mom left

Crying in H Mart

☆ Obama's annual recommendation ☆ Top 2 of Amazon's annual top 100, recommended by 15,000 readers with 4.5 stars ☆ Global readers voted Goodreads' best memoir of the year, with 210,000 readers rating it 4.29/5
☆A stunning debut novel that moved the nation and stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year☆Selected as a book of the year by media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Good Morning America, Entertainment Weekly, and The Philadelphia Inquirer☆A strict mother who cannot understand her daughter, a rebellious daughter who cannot meet her mother's expectations. At the final farewell moment, all mothers and daughters will eventually meet——————
A book of mourning written with blood and tears, a path of understanding paved with pain, a place of comfort built with food.
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One day in May 2014, Michelle received a call and learned that her mother had cancer. She then returned to her hometown to take care of her mother.
Michelle's mother is Korean and her father is American. She grew up in two cultures but could not get close to either. During her adolescence, she was obsessed with her musical dream and she and her mother were at odds.
During the days she spent with her mother, Michelle and her mother had conversations they had never had before. A few months later, her mother passed away. To ease her grief, Michelle began going to an Asian supermarket her mother often visited, trying to make the Korean food her mother had cooked for her, and wrote a sincere confession from her heart.
Michelle, struggling in the vortex of two cultures, is forced to re-examine her identity. In this journey of retrospection about love and loss, self-affirmation and healing of pain, she regains the taste, language and talent given to her by her mother, and also allows her mother to be "reborn" in the space constructed by food and music.
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"After Mom Gone" is a powerful portrait of a complex mother-daughter relationship. Zona writes with clarity and candor about her mother's death. Zona explores the connection between food and identity, and her descriptions of food transport us to the table beside her. The book reveals how Zona came to be herself through the loss of her mother and the process of bringing her back to life through cooking Korean food.
—NPR "A tender, beautiful, and heartbreaking book about how food connects us to those we've lost. Zona's descriptions of dishes like seafood scallion pancakes, pine nut porridge, and gimbap are mouthwatering, and her story flows smoothly, honestly, and intimately. When a loved one dies, we open all our senses to search for signs of their presence. Zona's ability to draw us into the story through taste is what makes her work unique."
—Kirkus Reviews "A warm, deeply engrossing work of literature, it offers an honest and nuanced account of the grief that comes with the passage of time, laced with hope, humor, beauty, and clear observation. This book is not to be missed."
—The Seattle Times
My heart nearly leaped from my throat as I read After Mom Was Gone. In this beautifully written memoir, Michelle Zona grippingly depicts the enduring bond between mother and daughter, touching on love, friction, loyalty, and grief. All mothers and daughters will recognize themselves and each other in this book.
—Dani Shapiro, author of Mother's Models "After Mom Was Gone is a miracle: a beautiful, deeply moving coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, love and grief, food and self-identity. It moved me and broke my heart."
—Adrienne Brod, author of My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

2023-02-01

北京联合出版公司

Light Dust

304

9787559665003