All You Can Ever Know A Memoir Nicole Chung by Nicole Chung 9781936787982, 1936787989, B079FFPXFJ instant download after payment.

"Chung's writing is never overtly sentimental, but it's crisp and clear and evocative .. Chung manages to make every moment she spent second-guessing her decision to search feel newly relevant... Though the story is intensely personal, it's never myopic and, ultimately, it's universal."  -  Mariya Karimjee, NPR

What does it mean 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, candour, 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. 

"...what shines through this beautiful book is her clear-eyed compassion for all her relations, her powerful desire for connection, her bold pursuit of her own identity, and the sheer creative energy it took to build her own family tree, to discover and tell another kind of story."  -  Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe

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 ev