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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

167 reviews

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

A love letter to the complicated relationship between mother and child, Crying in H Mart navigates the grief of losing loved ones and the grief of being disconnected from your culture. Zauner has an incredible and strong voice, ripe with unique observations and striking linguistic choices. And tracing these emotion and relationships through food? Brilliant. 

Now I'm going to listen to Japanese Breakfast's Psychopomp.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Infidelity, and Vomit

ennilepo's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Racism

divyareads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Racism, and Child abuse

robinks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

What a beautiful memoir and testament to Zauner’s mother’s life. As a fellow mixed-race individual, Zauner’s desire to connect to her Korean heritage is so relatable. It was also so wonderful to hear the book spoken by the author herself.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, and Medical content

Minor: Drug use, Racism, Abortion, Body shaming, and Infidelity

tragicdramatic23's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, and Cancer

Moderate: Racism

readnoot's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A terribly fantastic and accurate mirror for all something-American children, whether hailing from parents in interracial relationships, with immigrant backgrounds, or both. Zauner shares painfully honest depictions of her thoughts and feelings, even when they can make her seem somewhat villainous. Such scenes were both difficult to read and incredible to experience. Zauner has done a fantastic job showing everyone how human she is, and by extension, how human we all are, even when being so is hard or ugly or unforgiving. This should be required reading for all adults. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Cancer

Moderate: Child abuse and Racism

Minor: Addiction

r_clark's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Cancer

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

pageafter_paige's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow what a powerful book. I think as someone who isn’t/can’t speak Korean that the audiobook was the way to go because I was able to hear Michelle speak the language with the pronunciation, inflection, tone, etc. 

Michelle opens up to us about being a mixed child and her relationship with her Korean mother. Much of their relationship centers around food which is a big theme throughout and definitely made me hungry. But to them it’s more than hunger. It’s culture, and connection to each other and their roots.

One of the most powerful displays of Michelle and her moms connection can be seen through Michelle’s first two words as a baby (iykyk). Even Michelle’s relationship with her father is somewhat run through her mother. 

My favorite quote can be found in the last chapter: “If there was a god, it seemed my mother must have had her foot on his neck, demanding good things come my way. That if we had to be ripped apart right at our turning point, just when things were really starting to get good, the least god could do was make a few of her daughter’s pipe dreams come true.”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Addiction, Death, Grief, Terminal illness, Cursing, Cancer, Classism, Drug abuse, Medical content, Racism, Vomit, and Death of parent

iamsammie27's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism and Alcoholism

Minor: Child abuse