蜜雪兒・桑娜《沒有媽媽的超市》
美國當紅獨立搖滾團體「日式早餐」主唱Michelle Zauner 於2018《紐約客》發表同名短文,在網路廣為流傳。
這位韓裔美籍音樂人在書中以幽默簡潔口吻回憶身為學校少數族群的童年、抗拒母親期望的苦澀青春、首爾外婆家母女共享的韓食餐桌,25歲時經歷的喪母之痛...還有自己如何透過母親傳授的韓語、韓食與歷史重塑自我認同。
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
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.