Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

1789 reviews

jess_polishedcomma's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Excrement

deadwhiterabbit's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Excrement, and Abortion

komiification's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I need to stop listening to the most gut-wrenching audiobooks of daughters talking about their relationships with their mothers when I’m at work because I am literally on the edge of tears all the time. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Medical content, Car accident, and Abortion

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

jasminian_devil's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

jennaweston's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book hit me right in the feels and it hit hard. Rarely do I find myself staying up at night reading a book with tears streaming down my face, but boy oh boy, did this book do exactly that. I feel like I was hit with a truck of emotions but in the best of ways. Would 1000% recommend this book to everyone I know because it so delicately handles life, loss and what it means to find your love for people in the most unsuspecting of places. 

What I Liked 

• The writing is so good. It almost reads like a poem, especially with the immense detail of every food item in this book.
• The mother daughter relationship is messy, but so real and I found myself relating to some of the ways Michelle reacted with her mother, even though we come from such different backgrounds.
• I liked how she would flashback to some of the hard years in high school, but not dwell on it as to not take the reader too far away from the present story that encapsulates a lot of Michelle’s message in this book.
• I love how she wrote without holding anything back that grief is messy, cancer sucks, and family can be really hard sometimes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction and Bullying

mxfron's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

annaonthepage's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction and Alcoholism

kaitrates's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Infidelity

kairaveethakkar's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Physical abuse