Reviews

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

bente99's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.5

Usually I'm not that interested in memoirs, but this one I enjoyed very much. It's about the grief of loosing one's parent but also about growing up and trying to find one's identity. I loved the writing style. 

katejackson's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

vickykerrigan's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

Very sad but uplifting

flashandoutbreak's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, and Body shaming

linschen's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse

heartscomma's review

5.0

content warning: grief. and love—but those two are intertwined and these are the two emotions I felt throughout reading this book

I've dived into this knowing there will be food as a love language involved, but I didn't expect the writing to capture such feelings so perfectly. I think there will always be memories in every meal we eat—a love so big and raw and ugly it turns into seasonings. those are my feelings as well, despite I'm grieving the alive

crying count: 4 (excluding the tears I shed before I got into a reading slump and left this book to dust)

jaclynharr's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

tigerlillymelody's review

I don’t think I can rate this book because of how intimate of a text it is.  I picked up the book because as someone who lives near and frequently goes to an H Mart I connected with and loved the title. I learned later that this was a massive best seller spending over a year on the NYT best seller’s list. I thought the book was very good, but honestly after reading it, I’m not sure what caused it to connect with such a mainstream audience as the elements I connected to (coming from a mixed culture family, maintaining a potentially unhealthy relationship with a parent to keep the ties to your heritage/ethnicity, learning how to cook your family’s recipes from strangers on the internet) are not experiences that I feel typically resonate with mainstream readership. The book has also been optioned for a film which I also find interesting as I felt this book was more of an impression of emotions surrounding several things and less a traditional narrative. Zauner herself is writing the script and scoring the film and I’m interested to see what she does with it.

lauren_audhd's review

emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

eileenbaird's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25