Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

161 reviews

waybeyondblue's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, and Racism

Minor: Excrement and Car accident

ka_cam's review

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Moving reflection on grief, family, identity, memory, and people who love deeply and imperfectly. I appreciated her humanizing portrayals of both her parents and her younger self. The food descriptions made me hungry, also! 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Misogyny, Car accident, Racism, and Abortion

micaelacccc's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Racism and Medical content

ruthhelizabeth's review

emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

This pulled me in from the very beginning and didn't let me go the whole way through. Beautiful, sad, touching and carefully written memoir of a Korean American musician and writer struggling and learning in her relationship with her mother. 

The story is touching and the writing is a masterpiece. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Cancer

Minor: Racism

khiggins2's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, and Racism

k_a_i's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Really beautiful. The relationship between Michelle and her mother feels very similar to mine and my mom so reading this felt really tender during some bits. Really enjoyed this life story!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Racism, Abortion, and Car accident

jelkebooks's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

 This was an incredible memoir. The writing is just absolutely beautiful. The constant descriptions of food felt so real and passionate, but the descriptions of grief were also so incredibly real, and heartbreaking. I did sometimes get a bit lost in the writing, but I did think this was an incredible read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism and Racism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Abortion, and Rape

aleyajo's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

She talks about food a lot and it all sounded so delicious and made me soooo hungry. Eloquently balanced the complicated relationship with her mother with the love they had for each other. Beautifully written. Reminded me of leg but more poetic. A lovely memorial of her mother, their relationship, and their culture.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident, Racism, Mental illness, Child abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma

bethsreading's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

This is a gorgeously written and heartbreaking memoir exploring the depths of family, grief, and trying to exist as yourself. Truly beautiful. 

(I do not give star ratings for memoirs) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Grief, Vomit, Cancer, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Medical content

Moderate: Mental illness, Infidelity, Excrement, Abortion, and Racism

ka_schulze's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Toxic relationship