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The musician who leads Japanese Breakfast discusses her acclaimed bestselling memoir about food and family with Elisabeth Egan of The New York Times Book Review. Online tickets still available!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michelle Zauner is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy, shoegaze-inspired indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She has won acclaim from major music outlets around the world for releases like Psychopomp and Soft Sounds from Another Planet.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A longtime New York Times bestseller, expanded from an essay published in The New Yorker. Soon to be adapted as a major motion picture.
"From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band–and meeting the man who would become her husband–her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her."—Penguin Random House
“In losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself”—NPR.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Elisabeth Egan is an editor at The New York Times Book review and the author of her own well received novel, "A Window Opens." She is a member of the Open Book / Open Mind advisory committee and a longtime resident of Montclair.
