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Płacząc w H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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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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challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

This style of writing brought me into the story and made me ache at her pains. Michelle Zauner’s ability to transition seamlessly between memories and time periods was fascinating. Her descriptions of food, music, and bittersweet memories with her mother kept me hooked to the end. This memoir shed a light on a perspective that I have no experience with. Though I will never understand this experience, it made me empathize with the pain of it and grew my perspective on so many things.
The one thing I didn’t agree with in this book was the discussion of religion as something people were forced into. However, everyone has different opinions and by the end the author seemed more open minded about it.

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