i mean i think that that s a big part of the book s question is am i even korean anymore without my mother. because, you know, it used to be i could just call my mom if i had a question about koreans eat this, right, or koreans do this, right? this is what we do on this holiday. and now i don t have that person anymore, so suddenly it feels like am i even korean if i don t know the answer to these things, and i have to sort of seek them out on my own without just calling my mom. now, even before you started writing you were playing in some indy pop bands, and in 2016 you start a band and this is after your mom has died called japanese breakfast. all right, michelle, you got me. why did you call your band japanese breakfast and what is a japanese breakfast, which i assume is why you wanted to call it japanese breakfast in the first place. yeah, japanese breakfast, i started this side project very casually in 2012 when my other
band, little big league, which was not very successful as a sort of side project to that band. and i just wasn t really thinking about it at the time. i d seen some images of japanese breakfast which was soup and pickles and rice and like a raw egg with rice, and i just thought that is such a pleasant image, it conjures such a nice feeling that i just thought it would name it this moniker not knowing this project would become a grammy nominated project and be selling out shows across the world. well, here s a video from one of your albums with lots of family photos. let s take a look.