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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 rootsâwithin your culture, within your familyâand 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 upâfacing prejudice her adoptive family couldnât see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came fromâshe wondered if the story sheâd 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 secretsâvital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.
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October 2, 2018 -
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- ISBN: 9781936787982
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- ISBN: 9781936787982
- File size: 934 KB
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- English
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- LexileÂŽ Measure: 990
- Text Difficulty: 5-7
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