How Michelle Zauner Believes Her Book “Crying in H Mart” Changed Her Relationship with Her Husband (Exclusive)

Writing Crying in H Mart changed Michelle Zauner's relationship with her husband Peter Bradley for "the better."

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the Japanese Breakfast musician, 36, opened up about how her 2021 memoir, which details her relationship with her late mother Chong-mi, who died in October 2014 from cancer, and her Korean heritage, transformed their marriage.

According to the "Orlando in Love" musician, her husband — who is also the guitarist of her band — read Crying in H Mart "one million times before it came out."

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"[He] was very involved in the editing process and gave me so much amazing feedback," Zauner tells PEOPLE, adding that he's now a "beloved" character from the book.

"It's really sweet to let people know just how good of a guy he was through all of that and know a little bit about what is behind our relationship," she says. "I don't think it's changed our relationship at all beyond just we live more comfortably on book money. So, it's only changed our relationship for the better."

Zauner notes that the book has allowed the couple "to live more comfortably."

"For the most part, it was very positively received and touched a lot of people, and I feel really lucky," she says.

Elsewhere in the conversation, Zauner also revealed why she and Bradley have "well-balanced personalities."

"We don't fight very often," she says. "I think it's probably more challenging for him than it is for me because I can be just violently honest with him in this way that I maybe would be more careful with other people's feelings about."

Because Bradley is a guitar player in her band, she feels "very comfortable telling him things very honestly if I don't like something that he's doing."

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Zauner tied the knot with Bradley in 2014, two weeks prior to her mother's death from squamous cell carcinoma.

Japanese Breakfast's fourth studio album For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women) is out now.

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