All You Can Ever Know
Publisher
Catapult
Publication Year
2018
ISBN
9781936787975
Pages
240 pages
Genre
memoir
Format
full length
Item Type
Nonfiction
Annotation
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.
Grade Level
9-12; Adult
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Interracial; adopted adult; adoptive parents; international adoption; interracial family
Main Character
adult female
Race/Ethnicities
Asian (Korean) / White
Family Formation
adoptive mother and father
Keywords
premature birth; birth family; Oregon; stories; search angel; outsider; pregnancy; isolation
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Chung, Nicole, "All You Can Ever Know" (2018). Diverse Families. 2007.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/2007