Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

105 reviews

stitchbooks22's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

ariep's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Very heartfelt and touching. I related to a lot of the commentary on being mixed and growing up with an immigrant parent. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing and Abortion

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Infidelity, and Car accident

sasharichards's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

---

Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Abortion

ma_bster's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

Made the mistake ill-planned choice of reading the bulk of this memoir at work - Crying in H Mart nearly had me crying in the office!

I was a casual fan of Japanese Breakfast around the time their second album came out and I knew that Psychopomp was largely about the passing of Zauner's mother, but I don't think you need an intimate knowledge of Zauner nor her band to really appreciate this book (maybe you do need some mommy issues).

Even though I'm full Chinese, not half, I related to so much of Michelle's younger life as someone who grew up not speaking her mother tongue in a very white town and as someone with a complicated childhood relationship with her mother that's gotten better with time and distance. The book definitely made me call up my mom immediately.

The book meanders a little but I didn't mind too much. Zauner's descriptions of food are mouth-watering and I found myself thinking about this verse from "Heft" constantly:

I spent the summer tryin' to be sweeter / I spent the summer stayin' in / I ran a mile and then another / Spent my nights by hospital beds

. Worth the hype!

---

Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity and Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Excrement, Vomit, and Abortion

e_f_p21's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Drug use and Violence

trollmila's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I decided that I'd go to sleep early. That did not happen. I took a few days to read the first hundred pages but laying in bed I just became entranced in the book. I spent the second half of the book crying. During the wedding where Zaumer says there wasn't a dry eye in the tent, years later I was crying along with them.
Zaumer writes so well and the flow of the book, where we get flashbacks, where we get brought into the present are so well timed and balanced. I picked up the book finally after it being on my list for so long (shout out library waitlists (I kid I love you libraries)) due to her being a musician I deeply love but kept reading because it was so impactful and well written and structured. 
My family lost a parent to cancer in December 2023 and my mother recieved her diagnosis in Oct 2024 but thankfully they were able to remove it. It was a good book and I think I needed the cry.

---

Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Car accident, and Abortion

norygraph's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

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

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Infidelity, Racism, Excrement, Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

larbster90's review against another edition

emotional funny sad fast-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use and Infidelity

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. 

---

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

celticthistle's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Beautiful story about Korean/American woman relationship with mother.  Language barriers & navigating adult work/ life balance 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Death of parent