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â€œThis book moved me to my very core. As in all her writing, Nicole Chung speaks eloquently and honestly about her own personal story, then widens her aperture to illuminate all of us. All You Can Ever Know is full of insights on race, motherhood, and family of all kinds, but what sets it apart is the compassion Chung brings to every facet of her search for identity and every person portrayed in these pages. This book should be required reading for anyone who has ever had, wanted, or found a familyâ€•which is to say, everyone.â€ â€•Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere

What does it mean to lose your rootsâ€•within your culture, within your familyâ€•and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature in Seattle, 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 upâ€•facing prejudice her adoptive family couldnâ€™t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came fromâ€•she wondered if the story sheâ€™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 secretsâ€•vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.