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encryptedorchardpest's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Death of parent, Medical content, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, and Chronic illness
Minor: Toxic relationship, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Abortion
livreadsbooksalot's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Drug abuse
franzischi's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content
Minor: Drug abuse and Racism
rotatinglibrary's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Cancer, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Death of parent
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Rape, Excrement, Drug use, Abortion, Vomit, and Drug abuse
bookishkale's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Medical content, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Mental illness
Minor: Abortion, Racism, and Bullying
peachythi_books's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Grief, Cancer, and Death
Minor: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Racism
maxinesf's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Cancer, Death, Grief, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Alcoholism and Drug abuse
kelly_e's review against another edition
3.0
Author: Michelle Zauner
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 3.0
Pub Date: April 21, 2021
T H R E E • W O R D S
Raw • Illuminating • Surface-level
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Crying in H Mart is a memoir about growing up, caregiving, death, grief and identity from Michelle Zauner.
She details growing up as one of the few Korean American kids at her school; of struggling with her mother's high expectations; of time spent with her mother's family in Seoul; of caring for her mother through the end of life; of death and grief; and of reconnecting with her identity.
💭 T H O U G H T S
Sometimes the hype can have an adverse effect on my reading experience, and that was certainly the case with Crying in H Mart. I went in expecting a life-alternating and moving memoir dealing with death and grief, yet I didn't get the emotional depth I'd anticipated.
That's not to say this wasn't an incredibly personal and healing journey for the author, which I imagine it was. It felt like a story which needed to be written, yet not necessarily read. The writing was accessible, and Michelle details an intimate look into the daily routine of caregiving for someone at the end of life. It's always interesting to read about how people discover their culture, especially in grief. And food does play a role throughout, however, I'd expected there to be more of how food is a source of human connection through the good and the bad. I just wanted more depth and emotion.
Crying in H Mart is a beautiful exploration of mother/daughter relationships and an open dialogue on dying and grief, it just wasn't the all encompassing sensory experience I'd been wanting or needing.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• readers looking for a mother/daughter memoir
• grievers
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to."
"Food was an unspoken language between us, had come to symbolize our return to each other, our bonding, our common ground."
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Cancer, and Medical content
Moderate: Vomit, Medical trauma, Addiction, Drug use, Racism, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism
Minor: Abortion, Car accident, Infidelity, and Suicidal thoughts
mugs_it_is's review against another edition
Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Cancer
Minor: Infidelity and Drug abuse
miggyfool's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
Moderate: Abortion and Emotional abuse