Michelle Zuuner was beautiful for twenty -five years, lived in Philadelphia, worked as a waitress and tried to start a career in the music industry when she learned that her mother had become ill. She left everything and flew home to Eugune in Oregon to spend the last painful months of fighting cancer with her.
The absorbing honest story tells of Michell's maturation: how she distanced herself from Korean identity to return to her with humility, and how she was looking for her own way to cope with a deep loss. With humor and cordiality, she describes how she grew up as a girl of Asia-American origin under the weight of her mother's expectation until she rather moved to the other end of the country. She shares nice memories of the holidays that she spent as a child in her grandmother's apartment in Seoul, and depicts how she learned to cook Korean dishes that revive these memories as an adult. However, he also enjoys visits to the popular Asian retail chain, which in a way provides her a soothing arms.
Michelle Zuuner writes very lively and straightforwardly, lyrically and open, so on the pages of this book looks as much as on stage. Tears for OMMU are an extraordinary debut - you will appreciate this work in the spirit, highly recommend it and you will be happy to read it again.