Michelle Zauner

[I] had come of age feeling like my belonging was something to prove. Something that was always in the hands of other people to be given and never my own to take… I could never be of both worlds, only half in and half out, waiting to be ejected at will by someone with greater claim than me. Someone whole. — Michelle Zauner, "Crying in H Mart" Michelle Zauner found success as the lead singer of experimental pop band Japanese Breakfast, but in 2021, she became known to a whole new audience as an author, too. Her memoir, Crying in H Mart, is an expansion of an essay by the same title, which she published in The New Yorker in 2018. It weaves together different elements of Zauner’s life, all tied together by food, grief, and unshakeable familial bonds.