“Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind.”

The book had absolutely no right on making me feel this way. Reading this made me feel like I was trespassing on Zauner’s mind– it’s so intimate and emotional. Lorde, Mitski, and Japanese Breakfast: the holy trinity of mommy issues (also artists you should listen to while reading Crying in H Mart, I swear.)