Musician Michelle Zauner, aka Japanese Breakfast, Didn’t Much Like Growing Up in Eugene. In Her New Memoir, She Explores Her Oregon Roots.

In Crying in H Mart, her upcoming memoir, Zauner links together that grief with her love of Korean food, and the isolation of growing up Korean-American in a small, overwhelming white Oregon town. In a way, it’s the culmination of the loss and grief that Zauner has been processing as Japanese Breakfast for years.