Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

32 reviews

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

tganesh's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

Brilliant book. My favorite memoir by far and I loved it so much. Psychopomp means so much to me now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Mental illness

Minor: Rape and Abortion

Brief mentions of rape and abortion, more detailed expressions of emotional abuse, book centers around terminal illness and death of a parent

sarahrob's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

This book and heartbreakingly beautiful. I don’t typically read a ton of memoirs, and surprised even myself as picking this title for my book club, but I am so happy to finally read this one that has been on my TBR for a while now. 

I found the perspective and flashbacks a bit choppy at the start - it was hard to get into as Zauner jumped between times from one paragraph to the next. However, as the book progresses, I found no longer to be the case. 

She has a such a unique voice and I loved her ability to capture such immense grief and also occasionally break the tension with a line that was so completely relatable I had to laugh. 

Striking vignettes (crying in h mart, singing in Vietnam)
Motif and symbols (kimchi fridge full of photographs) 

One word: Visceral 
  

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Addiction, Rape, Car accident, and Abortion

melissa_cosgrove's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape and Abortion

martinatan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

you already know this book is perfect and no one can tell me otherwise

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Dementia, Abortion, and Pregnancy

andreaaj4's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

my new favorite book. absolutely life changing and evoking so much reflection and emotion from me, as a Chinese-American first-born daughter of immigrants. the best way i could describe the experience of reading this is "sobbing and salivating at the same time."

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape

booksarebae's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Rape

idesofmarch's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Rape and Abortion

seregelda's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

CW: cancer, child abuse, assault, r*pe mention

I'm not familiar with the author's music, so that didn't influence me at all. It was sad and makes me want to cherish my mom, a cancer survivor, all the more! Wish I could relate to all the food stories, but I still have yet to try kimchi (my sister thinks it will be too spicy for me).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Rape

jelkebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

 This was an incredible memoir. The writing is just absolutely beautiful. The constant descriptions of food felt so real and passionate, but the descriptions of grief were also so incredibly real, and heartbreaking. I did sometimes get a bit lost in the writing, but I did think this was an incredible read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism and Racism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, and Abortion