A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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?**
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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.
