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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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fpalladino's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Michelle captured the beauty and pain of trying to figure out adult relationships with a parent while supporting them through a terminal illness. I laughed. I cried. I cried some more. And absolutely loved this book.

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kaitrates's review against another edition

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challenging emotional sad

wow

that's all i got for now. what a gut wrenching read. i cannot wait to discuss with book club.

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kairaveethakkar's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

The award for best first chapter goes to this book! A beautiful read — cut 0.25 for rating because the last few chapters seemed a bit stretched and felt unlike the first half/two-thirds of the book.

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mariabacterium's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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laurebzrd's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

4.25

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_lish_'s review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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miblette's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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zoer16's review against another edition

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emotional sad slow-paced

4.25

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erinjeanhussey's review against another edition

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dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

A beautifully written, deeply moving story about family, love, loss, grief, and the ways food and culture tie us together in this life and the next. aMichelle Zauner is an incredibly fluid writer, providing details encompassing all senses without weighing her story down. I decided to re-read this coincidentally during the month that marks the 20 year anniversary of my mom’s passing, as well as the same week my grandmother died. Reading Zauner’s tender account of grief has truly helped me work through my own stages, once again.

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cry1ng_eel's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Wow, wow, wow!

To read this book in a day makes me feel like I did it a disservice, as if I really needed to take my time with it. And yet, I also could not put it down.

As an Asian-American myself (Filipino-Chinese), I have never felt so heard and seen from each experience that Zauner had so deeply described. From going down the grocery isle and reading the ingredients off of a packaging, or listening in to conversations in a language that I have yet to learn completely; her love for her mother is so deep and relatable, it made me miss my own mom even more so despite being in the same house as her.

Struggling with my Asian-American identity didn’t come to me until my late high school years, I was privileged to have been included in a community, and grew up around people who were Filipino. And despite, later on that I struggled with if I was Filipino enough? It was my mom who kept our culture alive, and gods did it make me appreciate the life my mother gave me even more so. I cry thinking about this book, and hope to return to it again and again.

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