Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

64 reviews

sjohnson's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

just openly sobbing on my balcony don’t mind me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Terminal illness

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Abortion and Drug abuse

pickupthebook's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug abuse, and Drug use

kirsto's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Cancer

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Racism

ajoyr's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Fatphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

basicbookstagrammer's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

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

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, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Abortion and Emotional abuse

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

klfgasaway's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

heyymishh's review

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

kayladaila's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Racism