Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) Releases Memoir Crying In H Mart Today
Japanese Breakfast s new album, Jubilee, is available for pre-order now out June 4th via Dead Oceans.by TV News Desk
Today, Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) is releasing her long-awaited book based on her viral 2018 New Yorker essay, Crying In H Mart. The unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity is out now via Knopf.
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she 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.
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Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner discusses her new memoir,
Crying in H Mart. In the book, she beautifully illustrates how she has dealt with the grief of losing her mother by cooking Korean food, and how her understanding of her mother has evolved since her death. She also discusses the complicated nature of being mixed race, and how she s found a sense of belonging through her artistic practices.
“Part of being mixed race and losing your parent that sort of connects you to that part of your culture, you just start to question, is this even an inherent part of my identity?” Zauner says. “I think that now I just really have to work to preserve that part of myself instead of it just being innately a part of me because of my mom’s existence.”