I wasn't really prepared for what this book was about. Actually I didn't know what this book was about. I just saw my friends getting it and jumped on the train. Crying in H Mart is first and foremost about grief and loss, as Michelle Zauner explores her relationship with her mother from her childhood to adulthood, the ups and down, their uneasy relationship in Zauner's teen years, the truce in her twenties, and then the devastating cancer diagnosis and her mother's sickness, decline, and death. The book does get mildly graphic in descriptions of illness. I hope writing about it helped Zauner gain some peace and helped her further in her healing journey. I hadn't cried the way this book made me cry in a long time. It made me miss my mom, even though I saw her just the other day and she's in perfect health. I did relate to Zauner relationship with her mother, though mine was a little easier than hers. Overall, a great memoir, if more than a little heartbreaking.