Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

16 reviews

openbookheartmind's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Rape

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

orangegirl22's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

Hong is an amazing writer, you are taken into the worlds she creates in her essays fully. With dark and powerful themes this book leaves you ready to listen and listen until either you can’t anymore because you have to do something else or because it has ended. Hong’s writing, above all, is brutally honest. It’s clear that unless she had to (due to the wishes of friends) she was completely and utterly truthful. It is now one of my favorite autobiographical works. Yet, I wish we knew more about certain individuals, and stories.

I wanted to know more about her friend from college, her family, and her immediate post-grad experience, but I also recognize I’m being greedy. When you read something this good, that tends to happen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Sexual violence, Murder, War, and Suicide

souplover2001's review against another edition

4.0

all these minor feelings ARE majorly getting to me now.... planning on rereading soon to take some notes and annotate !!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and War

Minor: Suicide

emordnilap's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

read for my us multiethnic lit class
incredibly powerful read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Racial slurs

Moderate: War, Body shaming, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Rape, and Bullying

Minor: Child death

vaniavela's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. 

The writing is beautifully written and insightful, exploring important themes such as friendships, mental health, and racial identity. The essays were deeply personal and I could feel her emotions through the paper. 

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and although I could not relate to her experiences, I loved the narrative, rich with history and ideas.

tw: racism, rape/sexual assault, , family neglect/abuse, alcoholism, drug use, suicide mention, trauma.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide

sammies_shelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide

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

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

mndy's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Racial slurs