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aminarotari's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.25
emselilly's review against another edition
3.0
Audiobook.
I really really wanted to love this book, but it just didn't click for me. Loads of great stuff in it but I struggled to finish it :(
I really really wanted to love this book, but it just didn't click for me. Loads of great stuff in it but I struggled to finish it :(
stephibabes's review against another edition
5.0
Caring for a parent at the end of their life is in some ways indescribably painful, but also a privilege. Zauner captures this tension in this brilliant and deeply personal memoir. What it must have taken her to write and share this must have been so much. But she has shared with the world a truly beautiful account.
The audiobook is narrated by Zauner herself and I really enjoyed it because of that.
I borrowed this audiobook using the Libby app from my library. Support your local library!
The audiobook is narrated by Zauner herself and I really enjoyed it because of that.
I borrowed this audiobook using the Libby app from my library. Support your local library!
abbiebuckham77's review against another edition
5.0
As someone who also lost my mother at 25, I cried many cathartic tears while reading this memoir. I found myself nodding along to so many of Michelle’s words, feelings I had felt leading up to and after my mother’s death.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this with the world.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this with the world.
sarojaede's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.25
I went into this book with some trepidation because I know people who have loved it and those who hated it. I am so glad that I read it because I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Zauner's Crying in H Mart is a reflection on her relationship with her mother along with her struggle to reconcile her identity as a Korean-American, who did not feel Korean enough but also wanted, especially when she was younger, to not really be identified as Korean because she didn't want to be "different".
Maybe it's because I lost my own mother just less than two years ago, but this book will stick with me a long time. My relationship with my mother was nothing like that of the author's with her own mother; it wasn't contentious as a I was growing up or even through my adulthood, however, I was invested in their relationship from the beginning. Honestly, I cried in the first chapter as she described the deep longing she had for her mother and the sheer depth of missing her.
Another aspect of the book that I really enjoyed were all the descriptions of food and how Zauner found a way to connect with her Korean heritage through cooking and learning the recipes of the foods that not only she grew up on but that her mother grew up on as well. I simply loved the way she began to embrace her own identity as Korean-American and built stronger connections to her mother and other relative through food, even if she only did so more fully after he mother was diagnosed with cancer.
Zauner's Crying in H Mart is a reflection on her relationship with her mother along with her struggle to reconcile her identity as a Korean-American, who did not feel Korean enough but also wanted, especially when she was younger, to not really be identified as Korean because she didn't want to be "different".
Maybe it's because I lost my own mother just less than two years ago, but this book will stick with me a long time. My relationship with my mother was nothing like that of the author's with her own mother; it wasn't contentious as a I was growing up or even through my adulthood, however, I was invested in their relationship from the beginning. Honestly, I cried in the first chapter as she described the deep longing she had for her mother and the sheer depth of missing her.
Another aspect of the book that I really enjoyed were all the descriptions of food and how Zauner found a way to connect with her Korean heritage through cooking and learning the recipes of the foods that not only she grew up on but that her mother grew up on as well. I simply loved the way she began to embrace her own identity as Korean-American and built stronger connections to her mother and other relative through food, even if she only did so more fully after he mother was diagnosed with cancer.