Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

1771 reviews

kairaveethakkar's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

The award for best first chapter goes to this book! A beautiful read — cut 0.25 for rating because the last few chapters seemed a bit stretched and felt unlike the first half/two-thirds of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Physical abuse

mariabacterium's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

laurebzrd's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

_lish_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Car accident, Abortion, and Death of parent

miblette's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

zoer16's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

erinjeanhussey's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

A beautifully written, deeply moving story about family, love, loss, grief, and the ways food and culture tie us together in this life and the next. aMichelle Zauner is an incredibly fluid writer, providing details encompassing all senses without weighing her story down. I decided to re-read this coincidentally during the month that marks the 20 year anniversary of my mom’s passing, as well as the same week my grandmother died. Reading Zauner’s tender account of grief has truly helped me work through my own stages, once again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

cry1ng_eel's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Wow, wow, wow!

To read this book in a day makes me feel like I did it a disservice, as if I really needed to take my time with it. And yet, I also could not put it down.

As an Asian-American myself (Filipino-Chinese), I have never felt so heard and seen from each experience that Zauner had so deeply described. From going down the grocery isle and reading the ingredients off of a packaging, or listening in to conversations in a language that I have yet to learn completely; her love for her mother is so deep and relatable, it made me miss my own mom even more so despite being in the same house as her.

Struggling with my Asian-American identity didn’t come to me until my late high school years, I was privileged to have been included in a community, and grew up around people who were Filipino. And despite, later on that I struggled with if I was Filipino enough? It was my mom who kept our culture alive, and gods did it make me appreciate the life my mother gave me even more so. I cry thinking about this book, and hope to return to it again and again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity, Xenophobia, and Medical trauma

melissasherlock87's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

hahahaha's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I wish I had read this book in one sitting because I felt it was dragging towards the end, but I think that was because I was spacing my reads too far apart. Otherwise, Crying in H Mart was one great nostalgia trip. Or a more current memories trip, even. It was funny to see all my favorite Korean dishes romanized in English, odd to revisit those tastes from a stranger’s tongue. Though I don’t know Zauner personally, I felt much of her experiences could easily translate into my own life. Our mothers are not the same people, but they seem to have shared many similar views. Reading this book, I felt my appreciation for my mom heighten. I came to realize once more that I had been taking too much for granted. But I think even someone who does not relate as much to Zauner’s life could come to the same realization—Zauner writes in a way that makes this possible. She writes like the songwriter she is. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent