Michelle Zauner is the latest guest on Rachel Belle s Your Last Meal podcast.
Michelle Zauner, the musician behind Japanese Breakfast, just released a best-selling memoir called
Crying in H Mart. The book is about her relationship with her mother, who died of cancer when Zauner was 25 years old, and how she found solace in the aisles of H Mart.
“H Mart is a Korean grocery chain. It just became a real refuge for me, a really enjoyable place to get my groceries and spark a lot of forgotten memories I had of my childhood and my mom,” Zauner said. “I cry in H Mart all the time. I cried recently because, you know, sometimes you’ll see Korean moms with their kids going off to college and they’re buying them groceries, escorting them along in the same way that I remember being in a grocery store with my mom, and that just wrecks me.”