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Michelle Zauner Pak Bae* Five years after Crying in H Mart, Japanese Breakfast‘s Michelle Zauner has revealed her next book: Thank You for Your Suffering.
The memoir, out April 27, 2027 via Penguin Random House, traces Zauner’s year in South Korea, connecting with her family in Seoul and learning Korean in the hopes of reading her late mother’s diary. It details her journey of living in a foreign city — from the apartment she moves into with her husband and bandmate (Peter Bradley), to the difficulty of learning the language — and her newfound connection to her roots.
Crying in H Mart, which stemmed from a 2018 New Yorker essay, centered on Zauner’s relationship with her mother, the meals they shared, and finding a new connection to her Korean-American identity. Around the release of the book, she was already contemplating its follow-up. “I think that desire will strike again pretty soon,” she told Rolling Stone. “I definitely feel like I have another book in me, if I’m not horribly panned.”
That was hardly the case, as Crying in H Mart spent over 100 weeks at Number One on the New York Times Bestseller list (a film adaptation was in the works, but was put on pause after actor-director Will Sharpe stepped away from the project). “I think, if anything, perspective makes the best work,” she said at the time. “So if I’ve been away from the screenplay for years, when I open it back up again, I think it’s only going to get better from there. I think someday I would like to direct it.”
