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A Memoir
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Youngmi Mayer
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Youngmi Mayer
About this listen
From standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan, and coming to terms with her parents’ shortcomings (Michelle Zauner).
“Do you know what happens if you laugh while crying? Hair grows out of your butthole.”
It was a constant truism Youngmi Mayer’s mother would say threateningly after she would make her daughter laugh while crying. Her mother used it to cheer her up in moments when she could tell Youngmi was overtaken with grief. The humorous saying would never fail to lighten the mood, causing both daughter and mother to laugh and cry at the same time. Her mother had learned this trick from her mother, and her mother had learned this from her mother before her: it had also helped an endless string of her family laugh through suffering.
In I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, Youngmi jokes through the retelling of her childhood as an offbeat biracial kid in Saipan, a place next to a place that Americans might know. She jokes through her difficult adolescence where she must parent her own parents: a mother who married her husband because he looked like white Jesus (and the singer of The Bee Gees). And with humor and irreverence and full-throated openness, she jokes even while sharing the story of what her family went through during the last century of colonialism and war in Korea, while reflecting how years later, their wounds affect her in New York City as a single mom, all the while interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality.
Youngmi jokes through these stories in hopes of passing onto the listener what her family passed down to her: The gift of laughing while crying. The gift of a hairy butthole. Because throughout it all, the one thing she learned was one cannot exist without the other. And like a yin and yang, this duality is reflected in this whip-smart, heart-wrenching, and disarmingly funny memoir told by a bright new voice with so much heart and wisdom.
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We all have things in our life that we should know by now, but don’t. Absences in our knowledge and skillset that are frankly shameful in an adult. Things that would be too embarrassing to ask anyone to explain – except our very best friend. Listen in as Mel and Sue tackle their ignorance head on, asking each other to explain something that they still don’t know - but absolutely, as adults, should - from how to parallel park to fully understanding bread (why has it got all those holes in it? What, honestly, is yeast?).
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Authors Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key build on the popularity of their 2022 Webby Award-winning podcast and delve deeper into the world of sketch, helped along with new essays created expressly for the book by comedy greats.
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- Extee
- 11-25-24
Visceral
Went into this knowing zero about the author and was just blown away. Highly recommend.
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- Rena O
- 12-16-24
My favorite book this year
I love how she tells her story in relation to her understanding of the stories of her grandparents, parents, ex husband, and son. She is such a great writer and tells a rich story in few and well written words. I'm about to listen to it a second time because it feels like I'm listening to a friend and it's a comforting feeling
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-26-24
Couldn’t put down
Youngmi Mayer is an incredible author and hilarious. Her beautiful and talented storytelling provides the reader insights into what it’s like as a mixed race Korean white woman in Korea and the US. Wish I could read it for the first time again!
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- madisun
- 11-29-24
fun & profound
unique and heartfelt story full of permission to be herself. i learned a lot about Korean culture
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- MDG
- 02-02-25
Honest and insightful
A good memoir doesn't just tell a story, it puts it in a larger context. Youngmi does this and makes you laugh while you cry. Her greatest talent.
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- Jennifer Martinelli
- 12-08-24
I knew I would love it and I did
This is a hilarious and heartbreaking memoir and I loved it from beginning to end.
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- Gabe
- 12-04-24
I laughed ...
while I cried. I too have a hairy butt hole now. Thank you Youngmi.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-13-24
Genuine, funny, heartbreaking and healing
The title says it all. Mayer describes the undescribable and is herself laughing and crying genuinely throughout.
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- mike j boeldt
- 01-25-25
Laughed while crying reading this book
Heartfelt, hilarious, and brilliant. A must-read for anyone and everyone who values humor, healing, and humanity. Thank you to the author for your honesty, openness, and hilarity. I wish there were more books like this and will be reading/listening to it again and again.
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- steppingonlegos
- 11-17-24
Loved everything about this book
The story of her life is so well told with just the right level of self deprecation and without hubris that often annoys me in memoirs. I laughed so much, cried a whole lot, learned a lot, and thought about things in new ways. The author reading her own book was the cherry on top. The way she does other peoples voices made me laugh every time. Even the credits at the end made me laugh. I haven’t finished an audio book so quickly maybe ever?! It was just such a pleasure to look forward to listening to every spare minute I had.
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