Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

40 reviews

daniellekat's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.5

Beautifully written but just not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Mental illness

Minor: Addiction, Hate crime, Infidelity, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

rieviolet's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I can only add to all the praise this memoir has gotten. It was honest, brutal, heartbreaking, mesmerizing, just all-around wonderful. 

I loved the way food was a focal point throughout the narration, how its connection with one's cultural heritage was so strongly and beautifully illustrated. It really prompted me to reflect on the food I've grown up with and its significance for my own selfhood.
The linguist in me also really appreciated the lovely reflections on language and on a mother tongue. 

The writing style was just *chef's kiss*. There were so many passages that I kept re-reading thinking to myself "How could she manage to capture this feeling with such poignant words and turn of phrases?", I was just floored. 

My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line - generational, cultural, linguistic - we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other's expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Rape, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

professional_grandma's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

This style of writing brought me into the story and made me ache at her pains. Michelle Zauner’s ability  to transition seamlessly between memories and time periods was fascinating. Her descriptions of food, music, and bittersweet memories with her mother kept me hooked to the end. This memoir shed a light on a perspective that I have no experience with. Though I will never understand this experience, it made me empathize with the pain of it and grew my perspective on so many things.
The one thing I didn’t agree with in this book was the discussion of religion as something people were forced into. However, everyone has different opinions and by the end the author seemed more open minded about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Excrement, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Car accident

kurumipanda's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

yavin_iv's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

lindseygetsliterary's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Infidelity, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

seanajk's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Abortion

angstyevie's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

mals_library's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

tenderbench's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Simply stunning, deeply touching, and emotionally raw. Be prepared to cry through this, but the tears will be worth it.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcoholism, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail