Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

94 reviews

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

So beautiful yet so heart-wrenching. Do not read this if you're hungry. Even if you're not, you will be.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Abortion

salm0n's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book tore my hear out and spit on it, absolutely amazing. The writing was extraordinary and Zauner's experience not only was incredibly inspiring, but extremely relatable. A must read for any half- asians trying their best to connect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Medical content, Car accident, and Abortion

idun_aurora's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

While both of my parents are still alive, things have transpired in the past few years that resonated heavily with me through this book. How you can love and hate your parents at the same time, about (not) being good enough, and how your senses and your nerves never forget. While splashed with the occasional humor, this book had me sobbing more than anything.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Cancer, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol

nicolet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Right from the beginning, this book immersive you in the Asian-American culture. Even though I am not an Asian American, I could relate to it because of the emotions so well displayed in the book. You could truly tell this memoir was a labor of love — not only to her mother but to the Korea. 

I will say some parts of the book were difficult to read. I am someone who has lost a family member to a terminal illness and have witnessed the painful decline in health that happens in those situations. I also had someone I love suffer through stage IV cancer, similar to Michelle’s mother, and even though thankfully my family member is in remission, the images that Michelle describes going through with her mother are real, and raw, and can bring up some unwanted memories for those who have witnessed similar things before. So I would be aware of that before reading. 

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Content Warnings

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

kdenten's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

christinakann's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

robyn_elouise's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s kind of like reading those recipe blogs where you scroll past five paragraphs of deeply personal stories to get to the ingredients list. I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way; preparing and sharing food can be heavily tied to our memories. It’s beautiful that Michelle Zauner found a way to connect with her Korean family and identity through food. I’m very curious to see what the movie will be like!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Car accident, and Abortion

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

dhritigupta's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

i cried so much what a beautiful book

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Car accident

bookswithgeorgia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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