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.
Read this very important book I liked it very much and I think it is something well worth reading That said, I would like to be able to be in touch with the author and have not found a way to do so The young lady seems very young and as they only child of the adoptive parents, she seems to think she can only choose one or two parents to love Plain fact is that The more parents you have the better, since you connect with them in different ways, just as you do with us or all your grandparents or cousins or friends. It’s wonderful that she has discovered a sister with whom she has so much in common and a father and stepmother so that she is part of that family I would suggest to her that she contact her first mother and other sister and listen to them as to human beings with their own stories and not just from what she feels she needs or from a judgemental point of view. Hopefully she figures this out before her mother is terribly ill or dies, because if she doesn’t do it her children certainly will and they will wonder why their mother Nicole didn’t do it. I care for her very much and wish her a wonderful future She needs to know it’s OK if she is not perfect and that doesn’t mean she took after bad traits from anybody – and by the way her mother is not perfect and that’s OK too. Nicole was so blessed to have adoptive parents and they to have her.The story of family, love, connection Nothing I could write here could do justice to the elegance and clarity of the prose, to the flashes of her sarcasm and humor, or to the thoughtfulness that suffuses every bit of this book. It is an incredibly compelling story of family and connection, of choices and belief, of the path to finding the truth.This book is impossible to read without feeling the intensity of love. Nicole Chung’s impeccably told memoir ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW is about growing up in a world where she felt she didn’t fit in. Her white parents adopted her as a premature baby, struggling for life in the NICU, born to a Korean family, and she was given one story her whole life about why she was put up for adoption. While her parents were loving and cared for her, they were not aware of what she was going through. She never met another person who looked like she did in the small town in Oregon where she grew up, was never introduced to her birth culture, never truly felt like she belonged, and suffered through years of cruel jokes about her physical appearance at the hands of other children.It isn’t until she leaves home for college that Nicole feels free, meets other Asian Americans, and people with whom she feels a sense of belonging. Married and a soon-to-be-mother, she is ready to find out about her birth parents. The journey begins to unfold.Nicole’s story is heartbreaking, heartwarming, enlightening, and told with such warmth, and without bitterness. It is about race, the urgent need to belong, and the importance of family. This book is impossible to read without feeling the intensity of love.
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