
“All of my ghosts are real, all of my ghosts are my home,” Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast sings in her singular way — sweetness laced with sorrow.
Four years ago, the release of her Grammy-nominated album “Jubilee” dovetailed with her bestselling memoir “Crying in H Mart” — chronicling her love of Korean food and loss of her mother — to produce a season of success. Then came a film adaptation of her memoir, for which she wrote the screenplay. With the Hollywood strikes, though, it came to a grinding halt (and later a full stop, when actor and director Will Sharpe left the project).