Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has announced her new memoir, Crying In H Mart. The book is set to arrive on April 20th, 2021 via Knopf Publishing, and will explore how the death of Zauner’s mother forced a reckoning with the musician’s Korean-American identity.At one point in the memoir, Zauner looks back on a time she broke down in the Asian supermarket H Mart, a traumatic experience that inspired the project’s title.
She remembers: “Sobbing near the dry goods, asking myself, ‘Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?’”Zauner dealt with her grief by writing music, and explained in a press release that being creative while “embracing of Korean food and culture”.
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