Tears in the Market

In this story about family, grief and resilience, written with humour and emotion, Michelle Zauner proves to be even more than a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Making her writing debut, the author recounts growing up as one of the few Asian-American children at her school in Oregon, USA; explains the strategies she used to cope with her mother's high and sometimes misplaced expectations; and shares experiences that could form the basis of any good discussion about the dramas
of adolescence.
Lágrimas no Mercado is a vivid and candid account, like tenderly leafing through a family album. Zauner also recounts the sensitive transition to the East Coast of the country, where she attended university and began her career in earnest in the music world, playing her first concerts, and where she met the man she would marry.
On a winding path to discover who she was—and where and how she was supposed to be—it was only her mother's death from cancer, when Zauner was 25, that finally seemed to bring her into contact with her own identity, with the tastes, language, culture and music that are her Korean heritage. Everything her mother had left her.

A story about the search for identity, the pain of losing a mother and who we become after grief.