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Michelle Zauner, aka Japanese Breakfast, grapples with the loss of her mother in ‘Crying in H Mart’

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https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/michelle-zauner-aka-japanese-breakfast-grapples-with-the-loss-of-her-mother-in-crying-in-h-mart/
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The Seattle Times
Issued Date
April 15, 2021
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UNITED STATES
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Michelle Zauner

About the Author

  • Michelle Zauner
  • Birth : 1989 ~ -
  • Occupation : Musician, Director, Author
  • First Name : Michelle
  • Family Name : Zauner
  • Korean Name : Michelle Zauner
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 3
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  • English(English)

In 2016, Oregon-raised Michelle Zauner released her first album under the alias Japanese Breakfast, “Psychopomp.” That same year, she won an essay contest in Glamour. The title of the essay, “Love, Loss, and Kimchi,” hints at some of the ways Zauner coped with profound grief: food, and by channeling creativity — two passions she shared with her mother, who passed away two years prior. Zauner’s new memoir, “Crying in H Mart,” grew from that essay, and the 2018 New Yorker article that shares the book’s name. In the memoir, Zauner chronicles the loss of her mother, who died from cancer when the author was in her early 20s. But to simply call it a grief memoir flattens what is truly a multidimensional work. This story is a nuanced portrayal of a young person grappling with what it means to embody familial and cultural histories, to be fueled by creative pursuits, to examine complex relationships with place, and to endure the acute pain of losing a parent just on the other side of a tumultuous adolescence. “Her memory was the archive of my existence,” Zauner says of her mother over Zoom on a recent spring afternoon. “This book is very much an ode to my mother.”

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