Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

74 reviews

hkesslerjones's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Excrement and Medical content

erinreadsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol

sapphotoni's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

sad 🥲

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Xenophobia, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Excrement, Vomit, Car accident, and Alcohol

ra22ouille's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

5.0

I cried nonstop for the middle 60% of this book. I was so immersed in Michelle's life and was emotionally invested in her family and trajectory. 

The beginning was the weakest part with some areas feeling less immersive. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Excrement

Minor: Alcoholism

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

I don't even really know what to say, but I will try to put something about the reading experience into words.

It was alright.  I teared up a few times.  The descriptions of food were verbose and evocative, sometimes excessively so.  I love Maangchi.

This is a story of grief and mourning, of finding your identity and how it changes as you grow, relationships and connections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, and Excrement

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Abortion, and Cultural appropriation

mirandyli's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Crying in Hmart has got me crying in Hmart. If you are a second gen East Asian immigrant, this book will make you cry. It was so painfully relatable and will make you want to hug your mom, no matter how much you hate her. Book of the year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Colonisation

imaginaryisobel's review against another edition

inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Infidelity and Abortion

morgancleaver's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Excrement

cepbreed's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I hate this book. It’s even worse that it’s a memoir, this is her actual life and yet I’m imparting all of my painful feelings onto her family. Michelle Zauner has crafted a story that has forced me to become both daughter and mother, a dangerous evolution for me, a daughter who is so single minded. I knew I would relate very rawly to her experience. I mean how could I not. I’m a half Korean half white girl born and raised in America whose connections to her heritage and mother are never good enough. That speaks for the daughter side of it all, but seeing Zauner take on the primary caregiver role for an extremely chronically ill person has put me entirely in my mother’s shoes. Obviously I didn’t die, but I was nearly there. I hated myself so much, for being so sickly, so full of hatred, so ugly, so weak, but my mother stood witness to it all. She absorbed my pain and never let hers show. Zauner’s words have cut deep into old scars and torn my heart in two. This memoir is everything to me and I’ll never be the same. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Excrement, Vomit, and Car accident

takarakei's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

A deeply personal memoir about mother/daughter relationships, and being an Asian American balancing two cultures. Michelle's relationship with her mother (and father) is very complicated. Much of the book deals with her mother's battle with cancer (check full TW!). Those of Asian and particularly Korean heritage will find many cultural comforts, especially when it comes to Korean food descriptions. The art teacher passage/letter wrecked me. Being a fan of Japanese Breakfast, I never knew their first album was a picture of Michelle's mom and that she wrote some of the songs for her.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Mental illness and Excrement

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Racism, Car accident, and Abortion

This book focuses very heavily on Michelle's mother's battle with cancer, and the struggle of caretaking through terminal illness. Michelle has a sometimes contentious relationship with both her parents. Her father deals with substance abuse issues.