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All You Can Ever Know

Nicole Chung

3.97 AVERAGE

emotional informative reflective
emotional reflective fast-paced

Lovely.
emotional reflective medium-paced

Critical adoption perspective, very generous in her kindness to the people in her life, acceptance/agency together

Interesting insight into trans-racial adoption and adoption in general. The memoir tells the story of her adoption and finding her birth family and secrets that are revealed.
emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

The author spoke their truth about growing up in a transracial adoption in rural Oregon, her experiences becoming pregnant and how her being adopted impacted her perspectives of motherhood, and the story of her reunion with biological relatives.

The writing in the second half had more of the typical memoir recitations. Story in first person. Then, the next story or milestone. Unlike the second half, the beginning was framed rather uniquely. The earlier writing style and story composition was intriguing. If the whole book was written in the same style as the first half, I would’ve listed this as one of my ‘love especially much’ picks. Still, it rates as one of my favorite memoirs.
informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
medium-paced

This is a thorough memoir about the complicated and complex nature of adoption from the adoptee’s view and that of her birth family. The only issue I had with this re-read is the audiobook narrator—difficult to listen to at times.

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A quiet, reflective memoir about one woman’s experience learning more about her birth family that thoughtfully raises questions about identity, especially in cross cultural adoption.