A review by bookcheshirecat
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

 “It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”

➽ Crying in H Mart is an emotional memoir about Michelle Zauner’s experience with her mother’s illness and the grief of losing her. This was such a moving story as the author digs deep into her past, the complicated relationship she has with her mother and her Korean-American identity! I could definitely feel all her complicated emotions and how life changed when she got her mother’s diagnosis. The story doesn’t stray away from showing the ‘ugly’ sides of grief and taking care of a terminally ill relative. Zauner had a complicated relationship with some of her mother’s caretakers, especially the one who would communicate exclusively in Korean, which left her feeling like an outsider sometimes 
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