“Crying in H Mart” is getting the film treatment. MGM label Orion Pictures snagged rights to Michelle Zauner’s New York Times best-selling memoir in a “competitive situation,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film will revisit Zauner’s “years growing up as one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Oregon and the months spent at her grandmother’s apartment in Seoul, as well as her career in the East Coast indie music scene and meeting her husband. At the center of her story is Zauner’s relationship with her mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer, at which point Zauner reckons with her identity both as a daughter and a Korean American,” the source details. Zauner is penning the script.

“My book is so specific to my experience. There was this real fear of preserving my cultural identity in this way that might be somewhat less of a fear if both of your parents were of the same racial background,” Zauner told W Magazine. “That element might be somewhat unique to the mixed race experience. But a lot of people can feel the sense of not totally belonging — you don’t have to be of mixed-race heritage to feel those emotions.”

“Crying in H Mart” originated as a New Yorker essay which Zauner then expanded into a book.

In a statement Zauner emphasized that it’s “a surreal thrill to have the opportunity to memorialize [her] mother in film.”

Also a musician, Zauner releases indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. Japanese Breakfast will be handling the soundtrack for “Crying in H Mart.”