num_pages: 240
description: What does it mean to lose your rootswithin your culture within your familyand 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 early 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 hopes of giving her a better life; that forever feeling slightly out of place was simply her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as she grew upfacing prejudice her adoptive family couldnt see finding her identity as an Asian American and a writer becoming ever more curious about where she came fromshe wondered if the story shed been told was the whole truth.With warmth candor and startling insight 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 secretsvital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography / Longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award / Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post NPR The Boston Globe TIME Newsday Library Journal BuzzFeed Real Simple Paste Magazine Chicago Public Library Seattle Public Library Goodreads Shelf Awareness Electric Literature and more
language: English
title: All You Can Ever Know
publisher: Catapult