Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

5 reviews

roseltov's review

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

4.75

This did me in. I listened to the audiobook m, as recommended by a TikTok created or follow, and I’m really glad I did it that way. This book is such a beautiful testament to the relationships it describes. It’s raw and evocative and beautiful. 

On a practical level, as a vegetarian, it was hard to listen to all the seafood descriptions - of which there are a lot. But they are totally integral to the book, and there’s no way it would have been as real without them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Abortion

miggyfool's review

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

rieviolet's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I can only add to all the praise this memoir has gotten. It was honest, brutal, heartbreaking, mesmerizing, just all-around wonderful. 

I loved the way food was a focal point throughout the narration, how its connection with one's cultural heritage was so strongly and beautifully illustrated. It really prompted me to reflect on the food I've grown up with and its significance for my own selfhood.
The linguist in me also really appreciated the lovely reflections on language and on a mother tongue. 

The writing style was just *chef's kiss*. There were so many passages that I kept re-reading thinking to myself "How could she manage to capture this feeling with such poignant words and turn of phrases?", I was just floored. 

My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line - generational, cultural, linguistic - we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other's expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Medical content, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Violence, Alcoholism, Car accident, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Excrement, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Vomit

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Addiction, Abortion, and Rape

seanajk's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, Death, Medical content, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Excrement

Minor: Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Abortion

smaber23's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book will make you call your mother more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Drug use, Grief, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Car accident, Cursing, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death, Abandonment, Abortion, Racism, Sexual content, and Xenophobia