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Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I cried about 8 times reading this. Just beautiful. An incredible look into a complicated yet typical mother/daughter relationship. Also a love letter to Asian food and Korean cooking. I wanted to spend this whole book emotionally eating.

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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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challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Such an emotional, beautiful depiction of life, death, and family. Zauner’s poetic writing style hums on the page, and her colorful food descriptions made me excited to explore Korean cuisine. Cultural ties, connection through food, grief, becoming your caretaker’s caretaker, all impactful themes. I especially loved her description of pulling together threads of her mother through the parts of herself she’d shared with loved ones—and pulling together her image of herself without her mother’s knowledge to underpin it.

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Michelle captured the beauty and pain of trying to figure out adult relationships with a parent while supporting them through a terminal illness. I laughed. I cried. I cried some more. And absolutely loved this book.

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