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Circulation Manager Pam Parker recommends Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.
Dinner and a Movie? Or, Noodles and a Book?
When she’s not fronting her indie-pop band, “Japanese Breakfast,” Michelle Zauner has a side gig. She’s an author—and Crying in H Mart (2021) is Zauner’s best-selling debut about finding solace in an unusual place, the Asian market known as H Mart.
“It’s a beautiful, holy place,” she wrote about H Mart in The New Yorker essay by the same title that spurred a book deal with Knopf publishing. The book has also been optioned as a major motion picture, and Michelle will write the screenplay. And, her musical career has blossomed into a third album, Jubilee (2022), which has been Grammy nominated.
The story explores the unexpected death of her mother shortly before the younger Zauner is jettisoned into pop-star status in 2014. The circumstances forced the budding musician to deal with both grief and rising fame simultaneously...
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