Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

93 reviews

mic0814's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Mental illness

the_true_monroe's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming, Infidelity, Racism, Xenophobia, and Vomit

Minor: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, and Abandonment

katekatiekait's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Mental illness, and Abortion

celticthistle's review

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

imds's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Mental illness, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction and Abortion

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

madisonthacker's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

Wonderful, touching story of grief, maternal love, third culture kids, and how the food we love connects all of it. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit and Cultural appropriation

Don’t read if you don’t want to be hungry.

claire_reardon's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

I’ve been curious about this one for a long time and it was what I was expecting. A lot of grief and a lot of food.

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Content Warnings

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

jessi_c's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I went into this with the full intention of not knowing anything about the premise or the author. And what an absolute joy and privilege to get to know this small family. A galaxy made from violence, gravity, and time. And the world receives every form of art that has grown from this grief in grand abundance. I will happily help to carry the weight and celebrate her life. I see her mother in my mother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Drug abuse

linearev's review

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

4.75

So, I have been reading a lot of Korean and Japanese book lately, a campaign kicked off by the ‘before the coffee gets cold’ series and intensefied by Sayaka Murata. And so when I picked up this book, I fully expected to at least like it. 
However, I was not in the slightest, ready, for the heavy hitting force of the fact, that this is a self biography. A portrait of no the the Korean minority in USA but also of a complicated relationship between a mother and daughter. A generational tradition of complicated love and amazing food. It introduces the reader to the inner workings of someone who is both rather relatable as she is partly American, yet also somewhat astranged (from someone who grew up so differently). And yet, the brilliance of her writing reveals itself by letting us into her Korean side and guiding us through that world. It left me feeling both entertained yet also more knowledgeable each time I finished a chapter. Because somehow she balanced this complicated self portrait with humor which created the sort of entertainment often found in fictional books. 
All to say that this was very good. It sort of reminds me of the new and popular “I’m glad my mom died” which ironically takes the opposite stance of the maternal relation between the main people, yet left me with the same feeling of stepping out of the life of someone compelling and complicated. I liked it enormously and hope to read more from her soon.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent