Reviews tagging 'Death'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

707 reviews

keelymightread's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Abortion

valesoup's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A heart-wrenching story about loss, grief and everything  that comes with losing a mother. It also shows how to regainin a sense of belonging and how keep in touch with your roots through food.

This book resonates deeply with me and is one of my all time reads, even though it wasn’t easy to digest at times.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

keanusmom's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, and Death of parent

zreadz's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This is a beautiful story. As an only child, I found myself relating deeply to Michelle Zauner, even though my relationship with my parents differs from hers. I went into this book blind, and I’m glad I did—knowing its content beforehand might have made it too painful to read, as I imagined myself in her shoes throughout. The memoir’s first-person perspective immerses you in one of life’s scariest and most certain realities: the death of those we love and the inevitability of having to move on afterward. When we witness this in others, we often distance ourselves to stay sane, avoiding the overwhelming grief of another. This book doesn’t allow for that distance, offering profound insight into the process of grieving someone who raised you, shaped you, and is a part of you. I also appreciated the exploration of Korean culture and being taken on a journey through grief, food, and, above all, everlasting love.

I recommend this book to both those who have lost loved ones and those who haven’t yet. I’d even recommend it to those who have witnessed or struggled to understand someone else’s grief, grappling with what it truly means and how it sits within you. It’s a tough and tragic read, but reducing it to just those two words would be an injustice. I loved reading about identity, coming of age, and the matriarchal dynamics that influence mother-daughter relationships. Like Zauner, I’m not religious, but like Nami, I’d like to believe our loved ones are happy somewhere, and that our ancestors help us navigate the enormous emotions of grief, love, sadness, anger, and joy that life brings. Our memories, our tastes our worldviews are gifts imparted on us by the ones we love.

Thank you Chongmi, Halmeoni, and Eunmi.

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Content Warnings

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

sfsonja's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer

didionhead's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

imscrem's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s difficult for me to understand how to feel about this book. It’s very sad, and it’s very good. I have yet to experience loss in the way that the author did, but I can only hope that writing this book helped her cope with it.

Some of what the author said about being half Korean/half American resonated with me, although I’m half American half Czech. I often feel lost in my heritage language and culture  as well, dismayed when people switch to English to explain things to me, and often expecting  others to tell me that I am “enough” to fit in.

It was also nice to recognize the names of Korean foods I’ve learned to cook, and understand a lot of the Korean phrases used throughout the book.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Rape, and Excrement

jess_polishedcomma's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Excrement

komiification's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I need to stop listening to the most gut-wrenching audiobooks of daughters talking about their relationships with their mothers when I’m at work because I am literally on the edge of tears all the time. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Medical content, Car accident, and Abortion

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

annaonthepage's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit