Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

35 reviews

erin819's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Grief, Self harm, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Mental illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Addiction, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Racism, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, and Cursing

lilybear3's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

This book wasn't what I was expecting, but in a good way.  This book was a collection of essays and felt like a memoir. She talks about Asian Americans in history that I had never hear of until now and I am so glad that I could learn more about them.  As an Asian American myself, this book made me do a lot of self-reflecting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Hate crime, Drug use, Death, Racism, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Murder, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Suicide

gracesullentrup's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs 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

voices_and_viewpoints's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Mental illness

annabella's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.25

So many things I felt I related to but never found the words to express myself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Rape and War

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

alicelalicon's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Racial slurs

sarosen's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Murder and Rape

bookiecharm's review against another edition

Hit or miss essays. The first essay is the best. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Mental illness