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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

17 reviews

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

phrogen's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Fatphobia and Xenophobia

hufflepuffbiologybuff's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

The relationship between mother and daughter is honestly refreshing. I think some of us can relate. Some of the things said in anger to each other was inappropriate, which is often the case though the mom made a really low blow that stuck with me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racism, Excrement, and Car accident

Minor: Cursing, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion

aksmith92's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I don't really love rating memoirs—these books are when humans talk about their lives, the people in them, and usually challenging events. Memoirs usually do or do not do it for me in terms of a great reading experience, and Crying in H Mart did it for me.

Michelle Zauner talks about her upbringing in this memoir—she's living a decent life and recognizes that, but somehow does not get along super well with her parents, particularly her mom. I don't know about you, but as a teenage girl once, this was highly relatable.

More importantly, though, this memoir talks about Michelle's identity as a half-Korean woman, trying to find solstice and being in the food she grew up hearing about and/or eating. She struggles regularly with her identity since she barely speaks the Korean language and only visits Korea every so often. And most important, this book is about dealing with grief and, acknowledging and accepting your past, and moving on from it during traumatic times. There is no mystery or spoiler here: Michelle talks about her family's experience with her mother's cancer diagnosis.

Michelle feels real in this book. She makes decisions you question and doesn't always know the answer. However, the heart in this book is so apparent, and it is simply moving. Not to mention all the incredible references to Korean recipes—this was SO good to add. 

I do feel the 50-70% dragged just a little bit, but overall, this was an incredibly captivating story about a woman finding her own identity in massive grief while leaning on some of the most amazing food recipes she can to feel in her place and with her family. Highly recommend this memoir! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Cursing, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fatphobia, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction

Addiction = not described, but talked about when describing someone's past. Also implied with a potential alcohol addiction.

kaylaswhitmore's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I may just be biased, since I am also a Korean-American woman who grew up in Eugene, Oregon…but this memoir is certainly a gift to all who read it, and especially children of Asian immigrants. Words can’t quite describe the bizarre, surreal experience I had reading Michelle’s recollections. In between reeling emotionally from the similarities between her mother and my own, I would find myself blinking as familiar staples of my Eugene hometown popped up on every other page. Though my childhood and relationship to my mother is still quite different from Michelle’s, there were still so many things that struck me as familiar—like a funhouse mirror. Her use of emotion to paint such vivid pictures of the intangible truly drew me in and held me from the very first chapter. Someday, when the ache of her loss and the fear of losing my own mother fades, I will return to this book and reread it anew. For now, I’ll sit here in silence for a bit and cry lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Infidelity, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

edencameron's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Death of parent

peachandmints's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, and Death of parent

skeptic_hecate's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

This one made me cry. The entire relationship dynamic reminded me of my mum and me. The weight comments along with the success and failure, with lots of love in the form of food. In our case, Georgian food. I cried so much imagining not even having a YouTube video to learn the wonderful georgian recipes my mum knows to cok so well. It is beautifully written. 4 stars because the writting gets a bit sloppy at the end, but I definitely recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Fatphobia

koplomps's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Car accident

Minor: Abortion and Alcohol

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Car accident, Abortion, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Infidelity and Religious bigotry