Reading Nicole Chung’s memoir felt
like sitting down with the author for a heart-to-heart chat.
In All You Can Ever Know, Nicole shares her experiences as a transracial adoptee and touches on so many issues relating to lost identity, what constitutes family, and the search for wholeness. She beautifully articulates her struggles as a child and young adult to connect with her Korean origins while surrounded by a white community, and still recognizing the love and care she received from her adoptive parents. The author shows the vulnerability needed to search for her birth family, the complexities of reunion, and the need to set personal boundaries.
As a birth mother, I appreciated her
candor and the opportunity to witness this very personal, and yet I believe
widely experienced, view of her life as a transracial adoptee.
