Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Lágrimas no Mercado by Michelle Zauner

128 reviews

lucykateburns's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Infidelity and Xenophobia

samarshall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity

literaryinluv's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

Listened to the first 30% of this while pulling strands of my mom's hair through a highlighting hair-net and joked that there should be a Filipino-"Crying in Seafood City"-version. Then cried a few days later while washing the dishes because of the wedding scene. A relatable delight. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

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

leahb88's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Wow so good. Covers a complicated mother-daughter relationship, loss and grief, Korean-American identity, connection to food and culture. Read this with Psychopomp in the background and lots of tears and UGH. Kind of slow at the end, but it kind of felt like dragging through grief, kind of mimicking her own experience maybe? I don’t know if enjoyed is the right word, but I highly loved reading this.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Animal cruelty and Infidelity

graceexe's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

picked up this book in search of guidance with my own grief. cried a lot. 5/5 would do it again 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit and Medical content

Minor: Infidelity, Racism, Xenophobia, and Car accident

marianaribeiro's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, and Death of parent

kelly_e's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

Title: Crying in H Mart
Author: Michelle Zauner
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 3.0
Pub Date: April 21, 2021

T H R E E • W O R D S

Raw • Illuminating • Surface-level

📖 S Y N O P S I S

Crying in H Mart is a memoir about growing up, caregiving, death, grief and identity from Michelle Zauner.

She details growing up as one of the few Korean American kids at her school; of struggling with her mother's high expectations; of time spent with her mother's family in Seoul; of caring for her mother through the end of life; of death and grief; and of reconnecting with her identity.

💭 T H O U G H T S

Sometimes the hype can have an adverse effect on my reading experience, and that was certainly the case with Crying in H Mart. I went in expecting a life-alternating and moving memoir dealing with death and grief, yet I didn't get the emotional depth I'd anticipated.

That's not to say this wasn't an incredibly personal and healing journey for the author, which I imagine it was. It felt like a story which needed to be written, yet not necessarily read. The writing was accessible, and Michelle details an intimate look into the daily routine of caregiving for someone at the end of life. It's always interesting to read about how people discover their culture, especially in grief. And food does play a role throughout, however, I'd expected there to be more of how food is a source of human connection through the good and the bad. I just wanted more depth and emotion.

Crying in H Mart is a beautiful exploration of mother/daughter relationships and an open dialogue on dying and grief, it just wasn't the all encompassing sensory experience I'd been wanting or needing.

📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• readers looking for a mother/daughter memoir
• grievers

🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S

"It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to."

"Food was an unspoken language between us, had come to symbolize our return to each other, our bonding, our common ground." 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

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

hadsbaker's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

one of the best books i've ever read. the writing is beautiful and heartbreaking and inspiring. the story is thoughtfully told and reflective and balanced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity, Terminal illness, and Medical content

ejanephillips's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol

deetabz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail