Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

97 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

emglange's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

gremlin_98's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

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

confusedteach33's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Heart wrenching and beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

kairaveethakkar's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

The award for best first chapter goes to this book! A beautiful read — cut 0.25 for rating because the last few chapters seemed a bit stretched and felt unlike the first half/two-thirds of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Physical abuse

pheebabeeba_'s review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

An excellent memoir. I think it describes the themes of grief, food and family very well. I loved all the passionate descriptions of food and the fond memories they hold. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Infidelity, 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

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

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