Characters
This is the first name of Michelle Zauner's boyfriend.
Who is Peter?
This is the city that Michelle and her mother would often visit in Korea, where her family also lived.
What is Seoul?
This is the disease that Michelle's mother was diagnosed with.
What is Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer? (Squamous Cell Carcinoma)
Who is Michelle?
This is the city were Michelle Zauner spent most of her childhood.
What is Eugene, OR?
So her mother would have the opportunity to view it, Zauner decides to make this major life decision despite not feeling ready. She plans for this three weeks before the day.
What is marriage?
This is the first name of the older woman who served as a full-time caretaker for Michelle's mother, that Michelle felt was pulling her and her mother apart.
Who is Kye?
Zauner meets Quing, a woman who speaks broken English who encourages her to sing her troubles away in a karaoke bar in this country.
What is Vietnam?
These were the last words of Zauner's mother before her death.
What is "Peo?" (Pain)
This is the real name of Michelle's mother.
Who is Chongmi
This is the final city Zauner and Peter chose to reside in by the end of the book.
What is Brooklyn, NY?
This was the cause of one of the largest arguments between Chongmi and Zauner, which led to Zauner temporarily leaving. This was also a source of coping for Zauner later in the story, which she discovered through a woman named Quing in a bar.
What is music?
This character's last words before death were "Where are we going?"
Who is Eunmi?
In the final chapter of Crying in H Mart, Michelle's band takes a tour around Asia. These are two of the cities they performed in. (Multiple Answers)
What is Hong Kong, Taiwan (Country?), Bangkok, Shanghai, Tokyo, Beijing, Osaka, and/or Seoul?
Chongmi always told Zauner to save her tears for when this happened.
What is "When your mother dies"