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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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aoifereadsbooks69's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I’m not normally one for memoirs, but this has been on the TBR for a while, and it did not disappoint. This book was heart-wrenching. It focuses on the complicated relationship the author, a half-Korean half-white American woman, has/had with her deceased Korean mother. If you’re an Asian American woman with mommy issues, a daughter of an immigrant family, a mixed person struggling with their identity, a person who has lost a loved one to cancer, or anyone else looking for an emotional read and an insight into the experiences of any of these groups, this is the book for you.

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I found the writing of Crying in H Mart very compelling. Michelle Zauner described everything with a charming amount of detail and it made the book feel like an honest confession of her life. As a POC I loved the amount of time she afforded to her culture, and specifically in her descriptions of food (a love language for many people). In addition, I liked that in the majority of the book Zauner switched from different points in her life, linking them through themes rather than time. This felt like an organic way to discover more about Zauner. The few aspects of the book that faltered for me were the few moments of repetition where she would reuse an old image with similar effect (but none were particularly long) and, whilst not necessarily negative, I noticed a change in pace during the later chapters (this may have perhaps simply been a product of the more somber tone).

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sadiedumplingreads's review against another edition

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emotional reflective slow-paced

2.5

Didn’t enjoy this as much as I expected to. Loved the food imagery and the insights to Korean culture, but didn’t connect so much with the people and hence didn’t have the emotional reaction to the book that people said I would have.

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

The only problem I have with this book is that the author describes every plate of food mentioned and its ingredients. As I'm not Korean and don't know anything about Korean food I wasn't interested in reading the name of groceries I couldn't picture.

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