Splash No. 158 - Mortality

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Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate View this email in your browser Mortality My life has been too fun and positive lately, so my book club started reading Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart, a memoir that dives into her mixed race identity, but mostly focuses on her experience dealing with her mother’s cancer and eventual death. To call it heartbreaking and depressing is an understatement — I’ve never read a book that has made me cry so much and so often, little pieces of sorrow scattered in hundreds of pages and thousands of words. Hearing Zauner describe the sorrow and regrets of seeing her mother succumb to a horrible disease, learning about the horrid details of a cancer patient, imagining the inescapable grief that would follow her for the rest of her life was a brutal experience. And what was more brutal was the fact that it wasn’t some bizarre freak accident — it was someone succumbing to the second biggest cause of death in the country. And so, as I get to hear about th

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Splash No. 158 - Mortality

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