Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

22 reviews

filmnoirz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

as someone who is so incredibly attached to her mother and has an awkward (to say the least) relationship with her father, my heart has been crushed and the itty bitty pieces found their way back to each other as the book came to an end. so so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Minor: Xenophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, War, Racism, Violence, and Alcohol

aoifeprettypurplepolkadots's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, Cancer, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

nixusiai's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

i haven't rated this because...well, i felt such a connection with the grief and i'm not sure i could rate something that feels so deeply personal!

beautiful book, i adored it. i'm so grateful to karishma for recommending it and gifting it to me T_T

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Car accident, Violence, and Alcoholism

anielabooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

I wan’t expecting to like this book as much as I did. Very touching memoir about the author struggling to figure out her identity as a mixed race person and connecting with her mother’s heritage after her death. The audiobook was narrated by the author herself, and I really appreciated the help to pronounce some of the dish names and Korean words.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism, Car accident, and Xenophobia

Minor: Alcohol, Violence, Drug use, Abortion, Excrement, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

toffishay's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

A beautiful, emotional memoir about family and turmoil and loss and grief. I cried as my stomach growled reading about the delicious food that held so many memories. Our lives are these complicated tapestries of feelings and events. What an honor to read this exercise in exploring a life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol, Medical content, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Vomit

Minor: Dysphoria, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Violence, Xenophobia, Abortion, and Mental illness

rmfickfack's review

emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Violence

thebookienook's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Abortion

thewoodlandbookshelf's review

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident, Child abuse, Alcohol, Violence, and Abortion

Minor: Rape

rieviolet's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I can only add to all the praise this memoir has gotten. It was honest, brutal, heartbreaking, mesmerizing, just all-around wonderful. 

I loved the way food was a focal point throughout the narration, how its connection with one's cultural heritage was so strongly and beautifully illustrated. It really prompted me to reflect on the food I've grown up with and its significance for my own selfhood.
The linguist in me also really appreciated the lovely reflections on language and on a mother tongue. 

The writing style was just *chef's kiss*. There were so many passages that I kept re-reading thinking to myself "How could she manage to capture this feeling with such poignant words and turn of phrases?", I was just floored. 

My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line - generational, cultural, linguistic - we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other's expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Medical content, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Violence, Alcoholism, Car accident, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Excrement, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Vomit

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Addiction, Abortion, and Rape

mithilareads's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Full review at https://mithilareads.wordpress.com/2022/03/20/crying-in-h-mart-by-michelle-zauner/

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Violence and Physical abuse