Michelle Zauner's recipe for consoling grief: A taste of home

"Every time I remember that my mother is dead, it feels like I'm colliding with a wall that won't give... There's no escape, just a hard surface that I keep ramming into over and over, a reminder of the immutable reality that I will never see her again." – From "Crying in H Mart" by Michelle Zauner

Author and musician Michelle Zauner was 25 years old when her mother died of cancer.  "This half-an-inch tumor, like, destroyed my family and tore my life apart," Zauner said. "And I think I just needed all of the space and word count and time to sort through that."

Her story of climbing out from the depths of grief, "Crying in H Mart," became a runaway bestseller.