Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

13 reviews

eatingbrains's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

I don't even really know what to say, but I will try to put something about the reading experience into words.

It was alright.  I teared up a few times.  The descriptions of food were verbose and evocative, sometimes excessively so.  I love Maangchi.

This is a story of grief and mourning, of finding your identity and how it changes as you grow, relationships and connections.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcohol, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death, Excrement, and Fatphobia

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Drug use, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexism

mirandyli's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Crying in Hmart has got me crying in Hmart. If you are a second gen East Asian immigrant, this book will make you cry. It was so painfully relatable and will make you want to hug your mom, no matter how much you hate her. Book of the year.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Excrement, Abortion, Drug use, Medical content, Misogyny, Cancer, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Addiction, Car accident, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Infidelity, and Racism

aishallnot's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Eating disorder and Racism

Minor: Abortion

autiedragon's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Body shaming, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Cancer, and Eating disorder

k_pelowk's review

dark funny reflective medium-paced

3.5

I loved this book so much. It so captures the shape death and grief take up in our bodies and brains. There so  much here about culture and language and how it lives are formed in part by us and mostly around us. And it made my mouth water. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

sarah578's review

emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcoholism and Eating disorder

isleoflinds's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Eating disorder, Excrement, and Car accident

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, and Vomit

sageysage's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A beautiful story of love, loss, and food. Zauner’s prose is so evocative and rich it feels like you’re seeing and tasting and smelling everything she puts on the page. The fact that someone can be such a talented musician and then write such a brilliant memoir is infuriatingly impressive. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Infidelity and Eating disorder

sambashua's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Vomit, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Car accident, Eating disorder, and Infidelity

luinthezu's review

informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Please be aware of how overt the illness and death of her mother is in this book. I feel like the recommendations and also the blurb didn’t prepare me for either how much dull listing of ingredients of food there would be, or how intimately I would have to witness a woman die.

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Content Warnings

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

I put eating disorder as a graphic content warning because there’s a paragraph about Karen Carpenter which is frankly disgusting but could also trigger someone deeply.