Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

36 reviews

flamesocks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug use, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abortion

linearev's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

So, I have been reading a lot of Korean and Japanese book lately, a campaign kicked off by the ‘before the coffee gets cold’ series and intensefied by Sayaka Murata. And so when I picked up this book, I fully expected to at least like it. 
However, I was not in the slightest, ready, for the heavy hitting force of the fact, that this is a self biography. A portrait of no the the Korean minority in USA but also of a complicated relationship between a mother and daughter. A generational tradition of complicated love and amazing food. It introduces the reader to the inner workings of someone who is both rather relatable as she is partly American, yet also somewhat astranged (from someone who grew up so differently). And yet, the brilliance of her writing reveals itself by letting us into her Korean side and guiding us through that world. It left me feeling both entertained yet also more knowledgeable each time I finished a chapter. Because somehow she balanced this complicated self portrait with humor which created the sort of entertainment often found in fictional books. 
All to say that this was very good. It sort of reminds me of the new and popular “I’m glad my mom died” which ironically takes the opposite stance of the maternal relation between the main people, yet left me with the same feeling of stepping out of the life of someone compelling and complicated. I liked it enormously and hope to read more from her soon.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Medical content, Vomit, and Terminal illness

kmae314's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

3.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, and Alcoholism

emilyharmonica's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Infidelity, Alcohol, Excrement, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Drug use, and Abortion

crieraylas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cancer, Grief, Death, Chronic illness, Racism, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Addiction, Car accident, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Minor: Infidelity, Violence, and Abortion

princessblueyes's review against another edition

reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, and Toxic relationship

kaylaswhitmore's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I may just be biased, since I am also a Korean-American woman who grew up in Eugene, Oregon…but this memoir is certainly a gift to all who read it, and especially children of Asian immigrants. Words can’t quite describe the bizarre, surreal experience I had reading Michelle’s recollections. In between reeling emotionally from the similarities between her mother and my own, I would find myself blinking as familiar staples of my Eugene hometown popped up on every other page. Though my childhood and relationship to my mother is still quite different from Michelle’s, there were still so many things that struck me as familiar—like a funhouse mirror. Her use of emotion to paint such vivid pictures of the intangible truly drew me in and held me from the very first chapter. Someday, when the ache of her loss and the fear of losing my own mother fades, I will return to this book and reread it anew. For now, I’ll sit here in silence for a bit and cry lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Fatphobia, Grief, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Car accident, Infidelity, and Body shaming

Minor: Vomit

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

livruther's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.75

michelle zauner is a talented writer. for anyone who has ever gone through grief, she has a way of taking you right back there, which is a very difficult experience for the reader but a wonderful demonstration of zauner’s abilities. i loved the tidbits about her relationship and how peter was always there for her. also, i think this book has an iconic first sentence. i liked pretty much everything about it except for the essay “dark matter.” it just didnt feel as impactful as the others to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Vomit, Child abuse, and Cancer

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion and Rape

edencameron's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Body shaming, Death, Suicide, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Addiction, Cursing, Grief, Medical trauma, and Mental illness