PositiveThe Straits Times (SING)Death is the central subject of Zauner\'s memoir Crying In H Mart, but the book brims with life ... The strength of her writing lies in its emotional honesty. She confronts and documents her mother\'s deterioration from cancer with a great love unhampered by over-sentimentality ... A minor drawback of her essayistic style is its occasional disorganisation. Her prose sometimes reads like a journal and can be difficult to follow, prone to aphorism and sudden conclusion. But as a map out of trauma, its messy form is perhaps appropriate.
