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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

64 reviews

encryptedorchardpest's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death of parent, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, and Chronic illness

Minor: Toxic relationship, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, and Abortion

livreadsbooksalot's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Drug abuse

franzischi's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Drug abuse and Racism

rotatinglibrary's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Rape, Excrement, Drug use, Abortion, Vomit, and Drug abuse

bookishkale's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast weaves her heartbreaking tale of the loss of her mother into formation. She had me captured by her story, of her fears and her hopes, her losses and her gains, her failures and her successes on the backdrop of something so awful. She is a brilliant writer, doing her best to find some ease in her pain and I am blown away. Her finding her heritage through food is heartwarming. I just want to thank her for putting her story into words like this, I cannot imagine how hard it must have been. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Medical content, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

Minor: Abortion, Racism, and Bullying

peachythi_books's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

If there was ever a book that I felt connected to me its this one. The author had a beautiful way of describing the intricacies and unique harshness of an asian parents love and what it means. How their affection is shown in ways that isn’t always conventional. She wrote truthfully on her grief and hardships when confronted by her mother’s cancer. That, and how she had to take a productive role in her mother’s care and how that also led to her desperate attempts to reconnect to her Korean Identity that tied the two of them so closely together. Her internal and external conflicts were described wholly and honestly in explicit detail. I think anyone who has close ties to someone who was or is sick or someone who has an asian parent or parents will read this book and connect to it. But even with out that you are given incredible insight into the life of someone who had go through those experiences.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Racism

maxinesf's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

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

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

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

mugs_it_is's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Cancer

Minor: Infidelity and Drug abuse

miggyfool's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Moderate: Abortion and Emotional abuse