Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

1679 reviews

kelkelkelkelly's review

emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Drug use

olpapi's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

nabaraditi's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

 Synopsis: It's about the mother-daughter relationship, how she deals with her mother's diagnosis with cancer and death, the daughter's identity as a korean-american and her love for korean food.

As I'm very close to my mother and I was also told to keep tissues nearby, I was prepared to ball my eyes out. I did feel sad for the author in some places, but mostly I was bored. I was mostly bored with all the ingredient list and the cooking. At many places, I felt like its a cookbook.

In my opinion, the relationship the author had with her mother was toxic and abusive. But it's very natural to only remember and reflect upon the good and happy parts and twist the bad experiences to see it as positive or helpful when its your own parent especially on a deathbed. Nevertheless, the author did go to therapy to end it abruptly and found solace in cooking korean dishes. It's obvious that she would as that's one thing that connects her with her mother. But I wish she would go to therapy to deal with the deeper parts of herself and heal herself from how badly she was treated by her mother. 

Nevertheless, I hope I don't receive any hate for my unpopular review. As a future psychologist, I know I'm nobody to tell someone how to grieve. Yet I feel this book was written as it would be cathartic for the author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

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

amandajt11's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

leonkoenig's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Terminal illness

Moderate: Alcoholism

khorva1996's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

jmarob's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

leeshahhh's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

kteliza28's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Absolutely flawless, heartbreaking, beautiful story of love and loss while navigating life. This memoir was so amazing, at the opening line in the audiobook, Michelle’s endearing and earnest voice swept me in and I knew quickly I would love the story. As a self proclaimed “foodie” who also despises the title but still feels its fit, I devoured every morsel of Korean food description. It had my mouth watering. I love Michelle’s connection to her mother and culture through food and how abundantly it was sprinkled throughout this book. I fell in love with Michelle as a person, her struggle, her rebellion. I feel like we would be incredible friends. I cannot say enough good things about this book except that you must read it. Or better yet, listen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief