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Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa

From The Archives – Crying In H Mart: Michelle Zauner On How Food Holds Memory, How Grief Can Remake Who We Are & Writing As An Act Of Survival

2/23/202626 min

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 b...

Clips

Inside Adapting H Mart
Am I Even Korean?
Writing As Radical Empathy
Feeding The Mother Who Fed Me
How Mom Would Celebrate
The Language-Learning Struggle
Honesty Over Fear

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Dua Lipa· Host0:00

    [gentle music] Welcome to the Service95 Book Club with me, Dua Lipa. From the archive today, it's Michelle Zauner, who I spoke to in April 2024 about her powerful memoir, Crying in H Mart. We talk about how food holds memory, how grief can remake who we are, and how writing becomes an act of survival and of love. My conversation with Michelle coming up. [pen scratching] Michelle, how you doing?

  2. Michelle Zauner· Guest0:28

    I'm doing great. How are you?

  3. Dua Lipa· Host0:30

    I'm good. I'm so happy to have you on our book club. I, I absolutely loved your extraordinary memoir, Crying in H Mart. I mean, it was so moving, but at the same time lou- laugh out loud funny. And I feel like some of the stories that you tell are so hilarious, [laughs] and it's, and it's warm, and it feels like it tells this real- really kind of universal story between a mother and a daughter relationship. And I think there are, like, three things in life that I'm totally obsessed with, and that's books, music, and food. So I think I'm really [laughs] gonna enjoy this conversation, um, with you. But before we jump in, um, can you give us a quick summary of what Crying in H Mart is about?

  4. Michelle Zauner· Guest1:18

    Growing up, um, with a Korean-American mother and American dad, uh, and the sort of, um, tumultuous relationship I had with

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