From the bestselling author of Crying in H Mart, a moving, funny, unforgettable new memoir about Michelle Zauner’s year in South Korea, learning Korean in an impossibly challenging language school and forging extraordinary new relationships with her mother’s family: the emotional continuation of a mother-daughter story that has captivated the world.Michelle Zauner’s delectable new memoir takes the reader on an immersive and deeply personal journey through the heart of South Korea, and charts Zauner’s dream of learning her mother’s native language in hopes of being able to read the letters and journals she left behind, and to connect with her family in Seoul. From the beginning, her adventure is beset by difficulties, from the quirky apartment she rents with Peter, her husband and bandmate, to the punishing language school that leaves her in tears. Korean does not come easily to her, even as she fights stubbornly to master it, and the difficulty of living in a foreign city places unexpe