Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

128 reviews

weaverca's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Medical content, and Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Abortion

robyn_elouise's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s kind of like reading those recipe blogs where you scroll past five paragraphs of deeply personal stories to get to the ingredients list. I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way; preparing and sharing food can be heavily tied to our memories. It’s beautiful that Michelle Zauner found a way to connect with her Korean family and identity through food. I’m very curious to see what the movie will be like!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Car accident, and Abortion

rieviolet's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I can only add to all the praise this memoir has gotten. It was honest, brutal, heartbreaking, mesmerizing, just all-around wonderful. 

I loved the way food was a focal point throughout the narration, how its connection with one's cultural heritage was so strongly and beautifully illustrated. It really prompted me to reflect on the food I've grown up with and its significance for my own selfhood.
The linguist in me also really appreciated the lovely reflections on language and on a mother tongue. 

The writing style was just *chef's kiss*. There were so many passages that I kept re-reading thinking to myself "How could she manage to capture this feeling with such poignant words and turn of phrases?", I was just floored. 

My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line - generational, cultural, linguistic - we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other's expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Rape, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

sageysage's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful story of love, loss, and food. Zauner’s prose is so evocative and rich it feels like you’re seeing and tasting and smelling everything she puts on the page. The fact that someone can be such a talented musician and then write such a brilliant memoir is infuriatingly impressive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Eating disorder and Infidelity

sambashua's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Car accident

paulrichard's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Addiction and Infidelity

dhritigupta's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

i cried so much what a beautiful book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Car accident

writewithapendragon's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I really liked listening to this book as I would have no idea how the Korean dishes and words are pronounced, otherwise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Infidelity, and Abortion

janabg's review against another edition

it was too triggering :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse and Terminal illness

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Infidelity, and Vomit

e_reader's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I finished it in a day. It was absolutely heart wrenching; I cried multiple times. It definitely lives up to the hype—I was able to engage with it on such an emotional level, despite the fact that I am not Korean, don’t know any Korean foods, and haven’t been through any of these same experiences. Michelle is such a talented writer that she is able to carry the reader through every experience she has with ease. 

She also skillfully wove a story of her and her mother’s lives. There were many many time jumps explaining past events, and never once was I confused about when we were. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion