All You Can Ever Know

<b>A NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br><br>This beloved memoir is an extraordinary honest nuanced and compassionate look at adoption race in America and families in general (Jasmine Guillory&#160;<i>Code Switch</i> NPR)<br><br></b><i>What does it means to lose your roots&#151;within your culture within your family&#151;and what happens when you find them?</i><b><br></b><br>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&#151;facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn&#146;t see finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer becoming ever more curious about where she came from&#151;she wondered if the story she&#146;d been told was the whole truth.<br><br>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. <i>All You Can Ever Know</i> is a profound moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets&#151;vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.