A review by jennaweston
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book hit me right in the feels and it hit hard. Rarely do I find myself staying up at night reading a book with tears streaming down my face, but boy oh boy, did this book do exactly that. I feel like I was hit with a truck of emotions but in the best of ways. Would 1000% recommend this book to everyone I know because it so delicately handles life, loss and what it means to find your love for people in the most unsuspecting of places. 

What I Liked 
  • The writing is so good. It almost reads like a poem, especially with the immense detail of every food item in this book.
  • The mother daughter relationship is messy, but so real and I found myself relating to some of the ways Michelle reacted with her mother, even though we come from such different backgrounds.
  • I liked how she would flashback to some of the hard years in high school, but not dwell on it as to not take the reader too far away from the present story that encapsulates a lot of Michelle’s message in this book.
  • I love how she wrote without holding anything back that grief is messy, cancer sucks, and family can be really hard sometimes.

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