GPS Parent Series community read focuses on family relationships and forging one’s own identity

The GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present its 2024 community read, "Crying in H Mart: A Memoir," with musician, author and director Michelle Zauner at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, via Zoom.

When Zauner was 25, her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She moved home to become her mother’s caretaker, embarking on a journey that would force a reckoning with her identity and eventually a reclamation of the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Zauner will share an engaging story of family, food, grief and self-discovery.

Zauner is best known as the frontwoman for her Grammy-nominated indie pop band Japanese Breakfast and her bestselling memoir “Crying in H Mart.” Zauner is adapting “Crying in H Mart” into a feature film through Orion Pictures.

Zauner will be in conversation with Kelly Corrigan, author of four New York Times bestselling memoirs and host of the popular podcast Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Corrigan also hosts “Tell Me More” on PBS.

Go to gpsparentseries.org/events/michelle-zauner/ for information and the link to this webinar.

GPS is generously sponsored by the Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Cebrin Goodman Center, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, Duly Health and Care, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, KidsMatter, Endeavor Health, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, DuPage Regional Office of Education, and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.

To be placed on a reminder list for GPS events or submit a question in advance, contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at gilda_ross@glenbard.org or (630) 942-7668.