Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

11 reviews

moonwedge's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, and Xenophobia

herceia's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

Not a memoir like I expected and i had a hard time connecting the people in the author's lives to the greater story theme, but it was very informative and spoke a lot of the things that i've always had in my mind

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Gaslighting and Emotional abuse

deetabz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Blood, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Hate crime, and War

Moderate: Colonisation, Police brutality, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, and Toxic friendship

bexi's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Murder, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, War, Toxic friendship, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Hate crime

Minor: Eating disorder, Drug use, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Emotional abuse, and Torture

noellelovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

This book gave me so much to think about. How little I know of history and the challenges that my ancestors have faced and continue to face. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Blood, Body shaming, Cancer, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Murder, Police brutality, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, and War

clarabooksit's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.5

I liked Minor Feelings but I didn’t love it. Some essays really struck me, especially Hong’s discussions of racism, pop culture—loved her dismantling of Moonrise Kingdom—being Asian America and Korean, and how she confronts race head on, but others I struggled with—notably the essay about art school and her two college friends had some excellent parts but overall didn’t work for me.

Her writing is bold, judgmental and brutally honest. I admired her consistent interrogation of her own thoughts and motives as she ruthlessly questioned those of others. I definitely think it’s worth a read but it’s not a new favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Murder, Violence, and War

Minor: Physical abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Rape

koreanlinda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

My short reflection as a Korean American reader

Forte:

• I liked the chapters about Cathy's experience with counseling therapy and the relationship with her mother. 

Shortcomings:

• The chapters lack cohesion and were confusing in terms of time progression. 
• The book is marketed as an Asian American memoir, but a big portion of the book is neither memoir nor about the Asian American experience. 
• I got the feeling that Cathy is avoiding telling her own story and reverting to the story of others.
• One chapter about Cathy's college years shows that a friend abused Cathy, but there is never an acknowledgement of the abuse. It is rather dismissed as a character flaw. 

If you want to read about Korean American Woman's experience, I recommend Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. 

Review by Linda (she/they)
Twitter @KoreanLinda
Letter writer at DefinitelyNotOkay.com 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Physical abuse

ntvenessa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Exceptional. This collection of essays is unbearably precise, striking the most vulnerable of emotions with masterful, incisive language. I feel my own untangled, dark and shameful vulnerabilities cast under a bright white spotlight to be dissected with great precision, confidence, and relevance. What does it mean to be Asian in a neoliberal, colonised, modern world? Why am I enraged and yet why am I invisible? This is essential reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Racism, Murder, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, War, Violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Misogyny, Hate crime, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Dysphoria, Drug use, Drug abuse, Chronic illness, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Antisemitism, Eating disorder, and Islamophobia

thevietvegan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This scattered prose of pulling on the thread of Asian American history unravelled a discovery of how intertwined oppression is among non-white folks. Minor Feelings is a thorough unpacking of buried feelings, suppressed by the expectation of the model minority. So many different aspects of Cathy Hong Park’s life, journey, and history are so densely packed in this. Beautifully written, extremely academic in some aspects, but overall an educational and heartbreaking read. Highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Rape and Murder

julied's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Rape, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing, Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse