How Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast got her melancholy mojo back

How Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast got her melancholy mojo back

For Michelle Zauner, hard work was just part of the job as leader of the indie band Japanese Breakfast. And when all that started to pay off in 2021, with her breakout album “Jubilee” and the acclaimed memoir “Crying in H Mart,”  life suddenly got a lot easier. So why, she wondered, didn’t things feel better? Michelle Zauner, the singer-songwriter who performs as Japanese Breakfast, will play her largest-ever headlining show in Los Angeles when …