Thursday, April 22, 2021

Review and recommendation for ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW by Nicole Chung



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.