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aubreyrae_m's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
Moderate: Vomit
ebullient_kate's review against another edition
4.5
This memoir is incredibly heartfelt and a beautiful testament to the author’s mother and their bond. I found myself becoming more and more grateful for my own mother as I read. I’ll admit it: I cried a lot! But I also “awww”ed a lot and laughed and drooled over the descriptions of food. The acknowledgments (which I rarely read) were SO SWEET!
Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Car accident
sfstefanie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
town_scar's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, Vomit, and Alcohol
Minor: Abortion
norygraph's review against another edition
5.0
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
the_true_monroe's review against another edition
4.0
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
keelymightread's review against another edition
Graphic: Death and Death of parent
Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Abortion
didionhead's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
babyhairs's review against another edition
3.0
Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, and Medical trauma
cry1ng_eel's review against another edition
5.0
To read this book in a day makes me feel like I did it a disservice, as if I really needed to take my time with it. And yet, I also could not put it down.
As an Asian-American myself (Filipino-Chinese), I have never felt so heard and seen from each experience that Zauner had so deeply described. From going down the grocery isle and reading the ingredients off of a packaging, or listening in to conversations in a language that I have yet to learn completely; her love for her mother is so deep and relatable, it made me miss my own mom even more so despite being in the same house as her.
Struggling with my Asian-American identity didn’t come to me until my late high school years, I was privileged to have been included in a community, and grew up around people who were Filipino. And despite, later on that I struggled with if I was Filipino enough? It was my mom who kept our culture alive, and gods did it make me appreciate the life my mother gave me even more so. I cry thinking about this book, and hope to return to it again and again.
Graphic: Death and Death of parent
Moderate: Infidelity, Xenophobia, and Medical trauma