Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

42 reviews

marena02's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Zauner has a unique way of relating real life experiences to the art of making Korean dishes. It’s what kept me reading. Her food descriptions were good enough to make me hungry. Touching on the topics of grief, loss, mommy (and daddy) issues, generational trauma, identity, and culture while still managing to keep the book feeling light and an easy read isn’t something most can do, but she did. I like how she was able to touch on her issues with her mom growing up and how that came full circle with how she learned to grieve her mother. Her being able to understand the cultural lessons her mom was trying to teach her as a kid and seeing how they pertain to her life as an adult after her mom passes and finally being able to get a sense of who she is…just brilliant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

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.

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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

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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

ckingcolorado's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Abortion

komiification's review against another edition

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

isajidy's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

lauraelovesbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Vomit

traciereads's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief and Car accident

Minor: Infidelity, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

mondayn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Alcoholism, Xenophobia, and Alcohol

There is intimate, horrified handling of a dead body

You will get several Korean recipes lodged into prose

ieotter13's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

what a gorgeous book, words flowing from story to story, a deeply personal insight into michelle’s life and journey through grief. 

the haverford and bryn mawr references towards the beginning were pretty cool to know — 100% a must read for bico students 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Abortion