Reviews tagging 'Death'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

677 reviews

mya_jt's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

For some reason, I did not have any clue what this book was going to be about. Completely ignoring the title, evidently, I thought I was going into a humorous, lighthearted story, about grocery shopping or something. Rather, if you're unsure about its topic, as I was, "Crying" is definitely the key word. {I cried many times myself, just experiencing this story secondhand.} It is about a difficult relationship and losing someone close to you. So close to you, they're really a part of you. It is so personal, it is difficult to even explain. I really felt the author's pain. It was quite the experience. I would recommend it to: anyone looking for emotions, humanity, vulnerability, something about the world, reflections on an interesting (in my opinion ofc) life, a complicated mother-daughter relationship, a story both of community and isolation, someone to tell you something deep, to draw tears from your eyes and feeling from your cold dead heart, someone to grieve with, someone to sing with, or someone to teach you about comfort food. This is a good choice for you, I swear.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

ktrainofthoughts's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

laurenlsmith's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death and Medical content

Minor: Body shaming

mondayn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Physical abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Body horror, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Xenophobia, and Alcoholism

There is intimate, horrified handling of a dead body

You will get several Korean recipes lodged into prose

emmabjones's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Oh wow. I loved this very much. Not usually a fan of audiobooks but it was told beautifully and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Seriously you should go listen to it on Spotify. I loved this book very much. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Abortion

psellars11's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Car accident, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Body horror

theotherlindsay's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Cancer

thursdd4y's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

One of the best memoirs I’ve read, so beautiful, raw and honest, and it completely speaks to me as someone who is mixed heritage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

linearev's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

So, I have been reading a lot of Korean and Japanese book lately, a campaign kicked off by the ‘before the coffee gets cold’ series and intensefied by Sayaka Murata. And so when I picked up this book, I fully expected to at least like it. 
However, I was not in the slightest, ready, for the heavy hitting force of the fact, that this is a self biography. A portrait of no the the Korean minority in USA but also of a complicated relationship between a mother and daughter. A generational tradition of complicated love and amazing food. It introduces the reader to the inner workings of someone who is both rather relatable as she is partly American, yet also somewhat astranged (from someone who grew up so differently). And yet, the brilliance of her writing reveals itself by letting us into her Korean side and guiding us through that world. It left me feeling both entertained yet also more knowledgeable each time I finished a chapter. Because somehow she balanced this complicated self portrait with humor which created the sort of entertainment often found in fictional books. 
All to say that this was very good. It sort of reminds me of the new and popular “I’m glad my mom died” which ironically takes the opposite stance of the maternal relation between the main people, yet left me with the same feeling of stepping out of the life of someone compelling and complicated. I liked it enormously and hope to read more from her soon.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Medical content, Vomit, and Terminal illness

mariball's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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