Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

1803 reviews

therecoveringbookworm's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

annamary54's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I cried about 8 times reading this. Just beautiful. An incredible look into a complicated yet typical mother/daughter relationship. Also a love letter to Asian food and Korean cooking. I wanted to spend this whole book emotionally eating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Death of parent

augustboxer's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

emmalwooten's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

heartbreakingly beautiful 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness and Death of parent

sfsonja's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer

didionhead's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

qa9's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

5.0

What a beautiful memoir. Zauner reflects in such honest grief over a complex mother she lost too soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

lil_owl_reads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

There were points during reading when I had to literally stop or I knew I’d be inconsolable and in tears if I didn’t take a break and put the book down. 
All the food descriptors are beautiful and made me crave so many Korean dishes. Love is not always clearcut, but food is. Food always seems to show love.
Reminder to hug your mom. Thats the main conclusion. 

Not full spoiler but maybe…

I did not realize this was about the Japanese Breakfast singer until much later than I probably should have

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

imscrem's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s difficult for me to understand how to feel about this book. It’s very sad, and it’s very good. I have yet to experience loss in the way that the author did, but I can only hope that writing this book helped her cope with it.

Some of what the author said about being half Korean/half American resonated with me, although I’m half American half Czech. I often feel lost in my heritage language and culture  as well, dismayed when people switch to English to explain things to me, and often expecting  others to tell me that I am “enough” to fit in.

It was also nice to recognize the names of Korean foods I’ve learned to cook, and understand a lot of the Korean phrases used throughout the book.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Excrement

cupcakesandclowns's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent