Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

677 reviews

jessi_c's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I went into this with the full intention of not knowing anything about the premise or the author. And what an absolute joy and privilege to get to know this small family. A galaxy made from violence, gravity, and time. And the world receives every form of art that has grown from this grief in grand abundance. I will happily help to carry the weight and celebrate her life. I see her mother in my mother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Drug abuse

laurenlsmith's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death and Medical content

Minor: Body shaming

globgr's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cancer, and Death of parent

oatmooolissa's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

Her grief was so palpable i could taste it. i too love Maangchi. “i’ve just never met someone like you.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

emmabjones's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Oh wow. I loved this very much. Not usually a fan of audiobooks but it was told beautifully and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Seriously you should go listen to it on Spotify. I loved this book very much. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Abortion

psellars11's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Car accident, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Body horror

kirstym25's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident and Alcoholism

melissa_cosgrove's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion and Rape

flamesocks's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug use, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abortion

linearev's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

So, I have been reading a lot of Korean and Japanese book lately, a campaign kicked off by the ‘before the coffee gets cold’ series and intensefied by Sayaka Murata. And so when I picked up this book, I fully expected to at least like it. 
However, I was not in the slightest, ready, for the heavy hitting force of the fact, that this is a self biography. A portrait of no the the Korean minority in USA but also of a complicated relationship between a mother and daughter. A generational tradition of complicated love and amazing food. It introduces the reader to the inner workings of someone who is both rather relatable as she is partly American, yet also somewhat astranged (from someone who grew up so differently). And yet, the brilliance of her writing reveals itself by letting us into her Korean side and guiding us through that world. It left me feeling both entertained yet also more knowledgeable each time I finished a chapter. Because somehow she balanced this complicated self portrait with humor which created the sort of entertainment often found in fictional books. 
All to say that this was very good. It sort of reminds me of the new and popular “I’m glad my mom died” which ironically takes the opposite stance of the maternal relation between the main people, yet left me with the same feeling of stepping out of the life of someone compelling and complicated. I liked it enormously and hope to read more from her soon.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Medical content, Vomit, and Terminal illness