Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

373 reviews

abbycole's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Drug abuse, Abortion, Addiction, and Drug use

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed and related to this. I'm also mixed Asian with an Asian immigrant mother so the love/relationship in the book is very similar to my own with my mom. My mom also told my sisters and me a very big secret/life event that shook us and reminded us that we dont know our mom like we think we do like the author's mom telling the author her secret. I also strongly related with the discussion of identity and the struggles of not being seen as enough. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Racism, and Alcohol

thursday_girl0's review

sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Death

tbd24's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

truly lovely

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Content Warnings

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

pseudolain's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Car accident

kaynova's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I wish I could put into words how beautiful this book was and how much I wish I could tell Michelle that she's stronger than a lot of us to share a piece of her grief with the world, but right now, all I can say is this was a book for all the BIPOC children who have become adults and are finally seeing their parents in a different light.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Terminal illness

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

A love letter to the complicated relationship between mother and child, Crying in H Mart navigates the grief of losing loved ones and the grief of being disconnected from your culture. Zauner has an incredible and strong voice, ripe with unique observations and striking linguistic choices. And tracing these emotion and relationships through food? Brilliant. 

Now I'm going to listen to Japanese Breakfast's Psychopomp.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Infidelity, and Vomit

hanrutmoe's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

Reluctant to give this an actual rating as my view is very personal to me. 

From the synopsis of this book, I wasn’t anticipating quite how heavily this was going to be about her mum’s losing battle with pancreatic cancer. Whilst I knew it was mentioned, it took up the vast majority of the first half and was quite detailed. As someone who recently lost her own mother to pancreatic cancer I’m not sure I’d have read this had I known just how in-depth this aspect was going to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Cancer

Moderate: Death of parent and Death

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Abortion, Cancer, Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Terminal illness

cateyackerman's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Drug abuse, and Drug use