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A review by mad_kat
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
A lovely, lovely book.
There’s a lot here I relate to. My mother died of cancer, diagnosed when I was 29. I had rebelled hard when younger, and we were still finding our ways back to each other. I tried to make it up to her. Her sisters there always, helping. Writing a eulogy to capture her (within a word-limit that I *greatly* exceeded—her sister quietly paid the overage fee). The one-second memories of awful things I wish weren’t in my experience.
I haven’t read anything like this book before. It’s a journey through what it is like before, during, and after a complicated-but-much-loved-mother’s death. It’s all complicated, after all: full of beauty, agony, fear, weird-but-necessary coping strategies, family (or just human) dynamics, and all the discomforts we suffer because we love.
There’s a lot here I relate to. My mother died of cancer, diagnosed when I was 29. I had rebelled hard when younger, and we were still finding our ways back to each other. I tried to make it up to her. Her sisters there always, helping. Writing a eulogy to capture her (within a word-limit that I *greatly* exceeded—her sister quietly paid the overage fee). The one-second memories of awful things I wish weren’t in my experience.
I haven’t read anything like this book before. It’s a journey through what it is like before, during, and after a complicated-but-much-loved-mother’s death. It’s all complicated, after all: full of beauty, agony, fear, weird-but-necessary coping strategies, family (or just human) dynamics, and all the discomforts we suffer because we love.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent