Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

1469 reviews

imscrem's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s difficult for me to understand how to feel about this book. It’s very sad, and it’s very good. I have yet to experience loss in the way that the author did, but I can only hope that writing this book helped her cope with it.

Some of what the author said about being half Korean/half American resonated with me, although I’m half American half Czech. I often feel lost in my heritage language and culture  as well, dismayed when people switch to English to explain things to me, and often expecting  others to tell me that I am “enough” to fit in.

It was also nice to recognize the names of Korean foods I’ve learned to cook, and understand a lot of the Korean phrases used throughout the book.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Excrement

lgoconno's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction

ckingcolorado's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Abortion

confusedteach33's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Heart wrenching and beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

jess_polishedcomma's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Excrement

deadwhiterabbit's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Excrement, and Abortion

komiification's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I need to stop listening to the most gut-wrenching audiobooks of daughters talking about their relationships with their mothers when I’m at work because I am literally on the edge of tears all the time. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Medical content, Car accident, and Abortion

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

jasminian_devil's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

jennaweston's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book hit me right in the feels and it hit hard. Rarely do I find myself staying up at night reading a book with tears streaming down my face, but boy oh boy, did this book do exactly that. I feel like I was hit with a truck of emotions but in the best of ways. Would 1000% recommend this book to everyone I know because it so delicately handles life, loss and what it means to find your love for people in the most unsuspecting of places. 

What I Liked 

• The writing is so good. It almost reads like a poem, especially with the immense detail of every food item in this book.
• The mother daughter relationship is messy, but so real and I found myself relating to some of the ways Michelle reacted with her mother, even though we come from such different backgrounds.
• I liked how she would flashback to some of the hard years in high school, but not dwell on it as to not take the reader too far away from the present story that encapsulates a lot of Michelle’s message in this book.
• I love how she wrote without holding anything back that grief is messy, cancer sucks, and family can be really hard sometimes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction and Bullying

annaonthepage's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit