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This beloved memoir “is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general” (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR)
What does it means to lose your roots—within your culture, within your family—and what happens when you find them?
Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up—facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from—she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth.
With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
Publisher : Catapult; Reprint edition (October 15, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1948226375
ISBN-13 : 978-1948226370
Lexile measure : 990L
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.68 x 8.23 inches
Customers say
Customers find the story compelling and enlightening. They praise the writing style as engaging and detailed. The memoir provides an insightful perspective on adoption from the adoptee’s perspective. Many readers mention that the book is about family life and coming to know family for the first time. However, some feel the book is too long and tedious. Opinions differ on the humor – some find it funny and others consider it whining.
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