Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

93 reviews

ephemeralzen's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

signeskov's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful read, providing heartache and important reflections on life, death, identity, motherhood, and grief throughout. The audiobook read by Zauner herself only made the experience even more intimate; anyone who has needed to deal with any of the themes mentioned just above are bound to be moved by and find something in themselves similar to Zauner’s story.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism and Mental illness

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Grief, Abortion, and Death of parent

filmnoirz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

as someone who is so incredibly attached to her mother and has an awkward (to say the least) relationship with her father, my heart has been crushed and the itty bitty pieces found their way back to each other as the book came to an end. so so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Minor: Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Alcohol, and War

lwarburton's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Mental illness

melissa_b_67's review against another edition

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism and Mental illness

cepbreed's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I hate this book. It’s even worse that it’s a memoir, this is her actual life and yet I’m imparting all of my painful feelings onto her family. Michelle Zauner has crafted a story that has forced me to become both daughter and mother, a dangerous evolution for me, a daughter who is so single minded. I knew I would relate very rawly to her experience. I mean how could I not. I’m a half Korean half white girl born and raised in America whose connections to her heritage and mother are never good enough. That speaks for the daughter side of it all, but seeing Zauner take on the primary caregiver role for an extremely chronically ill person has put me entirely in my mother’s shoes. Obviously I didn’t die, but I was nearly there. I hated myself so much, for being so sickly, so full of hatred, so ugly, so weak, but my mother stood witness to it all. She absorbed my pain and never let hers show. Zauner’s words have cut deep into old scars and torn my heart in two. This memoir is everything to me and I’ll never be the same. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Excrement, Vomit, and Car accident

bothsidespsych's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Mental illness and Vomit

supercat_earl's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, and Death of parent

takarakei's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

A deeply personal memoir about mother/daughter relationships, and being an Asian American balancing two cultures. Michelle's relationship with her mother (and father) is very complicated. Much of the book deals with her mother's battle with cancer (check full TW!). Those of Asian and particularly Korean heritage will find many cultural comforts, especially when it comes to Korean food descriptions. The art teacher passage/letter wrecked me. Being a fan of Japanese Breakfast, I never knew their first album was a picture of Michelle's mom and that she wrote some of the songs for her.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Mental illness and Excrement

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Racism, Car accident, and Abortion

This book focuses very heavily on Michelle's mother's battle with cancer, and the struggle of caretaking through terminal illness. Michelle has a sometimes contentious relationship with both her parents. Her father deals with substance abuse issues.