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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

180 reviews

thundrflap's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racism, and Abortion

mayadelaine's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

Zauner will have you crying through every chapter. Emotionally exhausting but meaningfully reflective on mother-daughter relationships and on connection to culture.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, Terminal illness, and Xenophobia

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed and related to this. I'm also mixed Asian with an Asian immigrant mother so the love/relationship in the book is very similar to my own with my mom. My mom also told my sisters and me a very big secret/life event that shook us and reminded us that we dont know our mom like we think we do like the author's mom telling the author her secret. I also strongly related with the discussion of identity and the struggles of not being seen as enough. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Racism, and Alcohol

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

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

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

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, Child abuse, Racism, and Death of parent

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: Cancer, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Medical content, and Car accident

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

tragicdramatic23's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism

green_mm'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: Cancer and Death of parent

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: Cancer, Racism, Death of parent, and Alcohol