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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

70 reviews

basicbookstagrammer's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Vomit, Car accident, and Abortion

eruby's review against another edition

I'm not in a place mentally read this right now. Maybe I will come back to it at another time. 

To be honest, I wasn't really enjoying the book that much regardless of the triggers that caused me to stop reading it. It is well written, but I found it hard to connect to. I'm sure it was healing for Zauner to write and I can see how others find solace and healing in this story, but I personally prefer memoirs about people with particularly unique lives rather than memoirs of somewhat regular people dealing with and processing grief and identity issues. To be fair, I've never listened to her band Japanese Breakfast. Maybe if I was already a fan I would have found this book more compelling. It's not a bad book, just not what I was looking for in a memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Physical abuse

spookily's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Abortion

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Racism, and Vomit

klfgasaway's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

heyymishh's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

I think anyone who’s a first generation American and halfie or experienced grief can identify with this book. While the author writes specifically about her journey about her Korean identity and dealing with her mother, I think being half Asian with similar experiences I was really drawn to this book. Her struggles with language barrier hit so close to home and learning to get closer to her culture/identity through food is something I really understood too well. The author writes this memoir for those in similar situations and there’s so many layers to where I think several people can appreciate this book - Korean or not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

kayladaila's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Racism

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Car accident

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Abortion

There’s also a scene where someone is looking physically attacked. Brief mention.

kaiulanilee's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow....I cannot even fully express how much this book impacted me, changed me, and how much it means to me. It felt like a truly beautiful celebration of the life of her mother, as well as something so personal and vulnerable to her and her grief that I found myself at times completely stunned. The writing is absolutely incredible and the descriptions of food, simple moments, and her feelings had me in awe. As someone with a Korean parent, the way this managed to capture the very specific type of affection within Korean culture, as well as so many other beautiful aspects to it, made this so incredibly personal to me. I saw my aunts in this, my grandma. It was devastating but in a way that makes you love everyone around you so much more. If you have the chance, PLEASE give this a read.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Drug abuse, Car accident, and Abortion

Minor: Child abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

 - CRYING IN H MART is a nuanced, painful, and loving exploration of complicated family dynamics, of finding your way back after a tumultuous adolescence, and grappling with the lost time.
- The writing is really stark - Zauner does not hide how awful her mother's illness was. Much of the book feels like her still fighting through her initial thoughts and feelings - it's all very close to the bone, still.
- As nearly every review has mentioned, the descriptions of cooking and food in this book are wonderful. I'm not terribly familiar with Korean food, and yet I still felt like I was right there in the kitchen with her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse and Abortion