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Lágrimas no Mercado by Michelle Zauner

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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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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I have never been truly interested in memoirs, but this one had been trending and I am happy that I picked it up. It was sad to hear about the story of her mother’s cancer diagnosis leading to her death, but it was a very inspiring story. Through her grief, the author shared intimate parts of herself through music, culture, her ancestry, and mostly food. I liked learning about Korean culture through this book and it was a nice change of genre.

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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emotional sad slow-paced

3.5

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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

A beautiful, emotional memoir about family and turmoil and loss and grief. I cried as my stomach growled reading about the delicious food that held so many memories. Our lives are these complicated tapestries of feelings and events. What an honor to read this exercise in exploring a life.

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I knew this would make me sad, I just didn’t know how sad.

From unaccepting, unrelenting mother figures to moving through the minefield of grief a lot of it hit some angry wounds. And at the same time it felt so incredibly intimate to bear witness to someone else's wounds that I’ll never fully understand (speaking as a white woman). Overall I think it’s beautifully told, even when difficult to work through.

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