Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

112 reviews

seregelda's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

CW: cancer, child abuse, assault, r*pe mention

I'm not familiar with the author's music, so that didn't influence me at all. It was sad and makes me want to cherish my mom, a cancer survivor, all the more! Wish I could relate to all the food stories, but I still have yet to try kimchi (my sister thinks it will be too spicy for me).

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Rape

daniofthewood's review against another edition

hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Body shaming, and Racism

bookish_jlp's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A lush exploration of love, loss, grief, and finding oneself again in the places and foods that come after. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

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

khiggins2's review against another edition

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

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

ruffian23's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Car accident, Abortion, Infidelity, and Alcoholism

20sidedbi's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Racism, Car accident, Addiction, Alcohol, and Infidelity

ceruleanseas's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol and Medical content

Minor: Cursing, Abortion, and Infidelity

booksanna's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I will preface this review by saying that memoirs are not typically my repertoire, yet this book dragged me out of a severe case of a reading slump. Firstly, the author’s beautiful writing provides soothing comforting and ever so meaningful story of her life. I especially enjoyed how she blended food with other themes of her life. As an immigrant myself, this book was a deep relieving sign of breath, and a nice warming cup of soup. For a book with only 200 pages, it could not have been more meaningfully written. The author’s eloquent writing captivated my mind and my mouth water with all of the appealing descriptions of foods. The story of overcoming grief and overcoming disassociation with your culture truly inspired deep thought in me. This book was truly wonderful, and I am so happy that I gave a chance. You should too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying

Minor: Abortion, Car accident, Violence, Infidelity, Medical content, and Alcohol