Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

174 reviews

idlereader's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Vomit, Racism, and Abortion

alexandramillar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Racism

graceexe's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

picked up this book in search of guidance with my own grief. cried a lot. 5/5 would do it again 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit and Medical content

Minor: Car accident, Infidelity, Racism, and Xenophobia

quasinaut's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I listened to this in bits and pieces over the past few months. There were some truly touching moments and memories connected through food and culture and disagreement and grief and love. I'm glad I listened to the audiobook, narrated by the author, especially so I could hear the pronunciations of the Korean names and foods. Unfortunately, as happens with audiobooks for me, I've already forgotten many of the details, with only a few notable, heart-rending passages -- like the discovery of photos in the kimchi fridge -- sticking with me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Abortion

oz2021's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Cancer

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Racism

chloeanderson's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Abortion

gagereadsstuff's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief and Car accident

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Excrement, Mental illness, and Vomit

bookishkale's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast weaves her heartbreaking tale of the loss of her mother into formation. She had me captured by her story, of her fears and her hopes, her losses and her gains, her failures and her successes on the backdrop of something so awful. She is a brilliant writer, doing her best to find some ease in her pain and I am blown away. Her finding her heritage through food is heartwarming. I just want to thank her for putting her story into words like this, I cannot imagine how hard it must have been. 

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Content Warnings

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

riverofpages's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Just be warned -  you might cry.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Terminal illness

Minor: Racism and Cursing

peachythi_books's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

If there was ever a book that I felt connected to me its this one. The author had a beautiful way of describing the intricacies and unique harshness of an asian parents love and what it means. How their affection is shown in ways that isn’t always conventional. She wrote truthfully on her grief and hardships when confronted by her mother’s cancer. That, and how she had to take a productive role in her mother’s care and how that also led to her desperate attempts to reconnect to her Korean Identity that tied the two of them so closely together. Her internal and external conflicts were described wholly and honestly in explicit detail. I think anyone who has close ties to someone who was or is sick or someone who has an asian parent or parents will read this book and connect to it. But even with out that you are given incredible insight into the life of someone who had go through those experiences.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Racism