Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

82 reviews

hereforthefunofit's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense

4.5

"I let the lyrics fly from my mouth always just a little bit behind, hoping my mother tongue would guide me."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Excrement

vb_marie's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

3.0

I found this book interesting but it doesn't match up with my personal preferences. I learned a lot about Korean food and the potential sources of culture clash between South Korean and American cultures. However, a good part of the book deals with sickness and grief without much comic relief. I usually prefer to read works that include at least some humor to soften the darker sides of the story.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction and Abortion

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

babyhairs's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, and Medical trauma

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 

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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

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

jhube's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Colonisation

dark_matter_07's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Xenophobia, Car accident, and Abortion

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

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