Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her of a painful adolescence of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.Īs she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band-and meeting the man who would become her husband-her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian Am A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. moreĪ memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Humorist Will Rogers put it a little more pithily: "Memoirs means when you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad ones you did do.". Gore Vidal, in his own memoir Palimpsest, gave a personal definition: "a memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked." It is more about what can be gleaned from a section of one's life than about the outcome of the life as a whole. Like most autobiographies, memoirs are generally written from the first person point of view. Modern expectations have changed this, even for heads of government. Many older memoirs contain little or no information about the writer, and are almost entirely concerned with other people. Historically, memoirs have dealt with public matters, rather than personal. Memoirs tended to be written by politicians or people in court society, later joined by military leaders and businessmen, and often dealt exclusively with the writer's careers rather than their private life. The chronological scope of memoir is determined by the work's context and is therefore more focused and flexible than the traditional arc of birth to childhood to old age as found in an autobiography. Memoirs are structured differently from formal autobiographies which tend to encompass the writer's entire life span, focusing on the development of his/her personality. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir. The chronological scope of memoir is determined by the work's context and is As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning "memory", or a reminiscence), forms a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable in modern parlance.
As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning "memory", or a reminiscence), forms a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable in modern parlance.
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