Read this when
All You Can Ever Know
Loving the family who raised you AND wanting to know where you came from. Both can be true 🌏
Who it's for
Chung writes honestly about loving her adoptive family while still feeling out of place in it, and about wanting to know where she came from without that being a betrayal.
Feelings it meets
What it is
A memoir by writer Nicole Chung, born ten weeks premature to Korean parents who placed her for adoption, and raised by white Catholic adoptive parents in a mostly white Oregon town. She grows up with the family story that her adoption was simply meant to be, while facing racism with no one around who shares her experience.
Where to find it
Hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook; widely held in libraries (check Libby).
Before you start
Heads up: Describes abuse by a birth parent.
Age: Not rated (suggested 14+)
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question:W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
