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Alongside Crying in H Mart, I‘ve anticipated this new release all year, and I am so grateful Kat Chow had the courage to tell her own story of losing and grieving her mother. I appreciate Chow‘s vulnerability in sharing her family‘s struggles to talk about their grief, to honor her mother in the ways she would have wanted, and to invoke her mother‘s unique sense of humor when they needed to find light in dark places.🔸#novemberreads2021

I share a few specific commonalities with Michelle Zauner: we‘re both mixed race Americans with first-generation Asian immigrant mothers, and both of us have felt the fear not only of losing our mothers but of losing our ties to their home countries. Zauner‘s memoir about losing her mother to cancer and making her mother‘s heritage her own is excruciating and relatable. I‘m so grateful she had the courage to tell this story.🔸#novemberreads2021

I absolutely loved this tender novel about discovering what matters most in life—after death—and realizing that we never truly lose our loved ones who have gone. Reading it felt like having a thick, warm blanket wrapped around me while I cried…and laughed.🔸#novemberreads2021

I got to meet Amanda Palmer several years ago when she came to Book People, played songs on her ukulele, and gave everyone in the book signing line who wanted one a hug, including me. This year I listened to the audiobook for the first time, which feels like a heart to heart talk with Palmer. It brought me back to that night when I experienced her brave, open-hearted vulnerability, which opened my own heart a little wider.🔸#novemberreads2021

In November, I still felt like I needed more grief support, so my reads were pretty heavy. But I highly recommend them all, if and when you need to process grief in good, compassionate company.🔸#novemberreads2021