Crying in H Mart
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Highlights
- There was no embarrassment left, just survival, everything action and reaction. (Location 1726)
- How cyclical and bittersweet for a child to retrace the image of their mother. For a subject to turn back to document their archivist. (Location 3120)
- I had thought fermentation was controlled death. Left alone, a head of cabbage molds and decomposes. It becomes rotten, inedible. But when brined and stored, the course of its decay is altered. Sugars are broken down to produce lactic acid, which protects it from spoiling. Carbon dioxide is released and the brine acidifies. It ages. Its color and texture transmute. Its flavor becomes tarter, more pungent. It exists in time and transforms. So it is not quite controlled death, because it enjoys a new life altogether. (Location 3121)
- It was ironic that I, who once longed to resemble my white peers and desperately hoped my Koreanness would go unnoticed, was now absolutely terrified that this stranger in the bathhouse could not see it. (Location 3156)
title: Crying in H Mart
author: Michelle Zauner
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date: 2022-02-15
source: kindle
tags: media/books
Crying in H Mart
Metadata
Highlights
- There was no embarrassment left, just survival, everything action and reaction. (Location 1726)
- How cyclical and bittersweet for a child to retrace the image of their mother. For a subject to turn back to document their archivist. (Location 3120)
- I had thought fermentation was controlled death. Left alone, a head of cabbage molds and decomposes. It becomes rotten, inedible. But when brined and stored, the course of its decay is altered. Sugars are broken down to produce lactic acid, which protects it from spoiling. Carbon dioxide is released and the brine acidifies. It ages. Its color and texture transmute. Its flavor becomes tarter, more pungent. It exists in time and transforms. So it is not quite controlled death, because it enjoys a new life altogether. (Location 3121)
- It was ironic that I, who once longed to resemble my white peers and desperately hoped my Koreanness would go unnoticed, was now absolutely terrified that this stranger in the bathhouse could not see it. (Location 3156)
title: “Crying in H Mart”
author: “Michelle Zauner”
url: ""
date: 2023-12-19
source: kindle
tags: media/books
Crying in H Mart
Metadata
Highlights
- There was no embarrassment left, just survival, everything action and reaction. (Location 1726)
- How cyclical and bittersweet for a child to retrace the image of their mother. For a subject to turn back to document their archivist. (Location 3120)
- I had thought fermentation was controlled death. Left alone, a head of cabbage molds and decomposes. It becomes rotten, inedible. But when brined and stored, the course of its decay is altered. Sugars are broken down to produce lactic acid, which protects it from spoiling. Carbon dioxide is released and the brine acidifies. It ages. Its color and texture transmute. Its flavor becomes tarter, more pungent. It exists in time and transforms. So it is not quite controlled death, because it enjoys a new life altogether. (Location 3121)
- It was ironic that I, who once longed to resemble my white peers and desperately hoped my Koreanness would go unnoticed, was now absolutely terrified that this stranger in the bathhouse could not see it. (Location 3156)