About this episode

Dua Lipa interviews Michelle Zauner about her memoir 'Crying in H Mart', exploring themes of grief, food, and love.

Regular listeners of the Service95 Book Club podcast know, as well as our new monthly read author interviews, we love revisiting some of Dua’s most memorable conversations. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner is such a universal mother-daughter story, it will always deserve a second, third, even fourth read – making this illuminating conversation between Dua and Michelle from April 2024 worthy of a second, third, even fourth listen. Some of you may already know Michelle as the uber-cool singer and guitarist of the American cult indie band Japanese Breakfast. Here, she also proves herself to be a first-class memoirist, writing with raw honesty about her teenage relationship with her Korean mother and how recreating the traditional dishes her mother used to make helped her process her grief following her death from cancer. Ultimately, it’s a story about love, something everyone can relate to. Buy the book at Bookshop.org, Waterstones and Barnes & Noble Get in touch: 📩 Email us – books@service95.com 📲 Follow @service95bookclub on Instagram for updates 📚 Subscribe to the Service95 Book Club newsletter – introduced each month by Dua – at www.service95.com And don’t forget to hit…

People in this episode

Host: Dua Lipa

Guest: Michelle Zauner

Topics covered

• mother-daughter relationship
• grief
• food and memory
• memoir writing
• love
• cultural identity

Keywords

• Crying in H Mart
• Michelle Zauner
• grief
• mother-daughter story
• memoir
• Japanese Breakfast
• food memory
• writing
• love

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Japanese Breakfast, Bookshop.org, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble

Books & works: Crying in H Mart

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