Why does zanier call H Mart a “ beautiful, holy place”?

For the Eugene, Oregon-raised musician and writer, crying in the Korean grocery store chain and looking for foods that reminded her of her mother was how she healed after Chongmi’s death in 2014.

“Within five years, I lost both my aunt and my mother to cancer,” Zauner writes in her memoir. “So when I go to H Mart, I’m not just on the hunt for cuttlefish and three bunches of scallions for a buck; I’m searching for memories. I’m collecting the evidence that the Korean half of my identity didn’t die when they did.”