Title: All You Can Ever Know Pdf A Memoir
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, Real Simple, Buzzfeed, Jezebel, Bustle, Library Journal, Chicago Public Library, and more
"This book moved me to my very core. . . . [All You Can Ever Know] should be required reading for anyone who has ever had, wanted, or found a family―which is to say, everyone.” ―Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
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, 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.
Beautiful, Moving and Honest Memoir This is the best book I have read about the adoption experience, and I have read many. Nicole is a brilliant writer, flowing in part from her extraordinary insight and honesty. This books gets deeply inside the experience of adoption, transracial adoption, and reunion with the deepest heart and soul. She made me cry and she made me laugh. Mostly, as an adoptee and parent of internationally adopted children, I felt grateful for how much she was able to communicate her experience in a way that will resonate for so many. Again, I cannot recommend this highly enough. It is a great read that will deeply move you.Dull and somewhat self-indulgent While I was excited to read about this situation, the tone felt somewhat whiny and self-indulgent. I understand that the unique adoptive situation would elicit strong emotions, but the author seemed preoccupied with self and failed to acknowledge in a sincere way sacrifices of caretakers. I've read other adoption memoirs. I just couldn't bring myself to feel anything for the reader's situation because her perspective felt egocentric.Gorgeous story - and a cautionary tale I loved this true story and its brave and kind protagonist, Nikki. Her journey is harrowing. Chung's portrayals of her loving adoptive family and, later, the Korean family she was born to and given up by, are so arresting. Her search for her roots had me holding my breath for her. I couldn't put this book down. The 'cautionary tale' is in the fact of the town and environs of her upbringing. All white, a small (unnamed) place in which Nicole suffered needlessly for looking different. She wished for blond hair and blue eyes - to fit in without question. Yet to her intelligent, well-meaning, kind-hearted adoptive parents, race didn't exist. They loved their child madly and that was that. Note to prospective adoptive parents of nonwhite children: for heaven's sake, try to live in a diverse locale so your child can at least see other people that 'look like me.' A wonderful, satisfying, beautiful book that I'm recommending to many.
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