All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
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Chung, Nicole Author
Published
Catapult , 2018.
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Description
A NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis 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?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.
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Format
eBook
Street Date
10/02/2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781936787982
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Chung, N. (2018). All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir . Catapult.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chung, Nicole. 2018. All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir. Catapult.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Chung, Nicole. All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir Catapult, 2018.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Chung, N. (2018). All you can ever know: a memoir. Catapult.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Chung, Nicole. All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir Catapult, 2018.
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| Collection | Owned | Available | Number of Holds |
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| Libby | 8 | 6 | 0 |
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