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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
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It’s impressive how much story was packed into a short book, and liked how the narrative was shared.
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True story of a Korean american woman searching for her family history as she becomes pregnant. Adopted as a premie and raised in a small all white town in Oregon she struggles with her otherness.
Writing is good but I just feel tired of this type of story.
Writing is good but I just feel tired of this type of story.
Heartbreaking and informative, this is a wonderful memoir by Nicole Chung describing her many feelings, and those of her adoptive and biological families about her adoption and her search for her biological family.
Adoption and the reasons behind giving up one's child are complicated, and things are only more complicated when dealing with a transnational and transracial situation. I could appreciate the author's many contradictory feelings about her childhood and questions about her biological sisters and parents, as well as her various parents' reactions to the situation.
This is a quiet book, and very moving, and had me choked up frequently.
Adoption and the reasons behind giving up one's child are complicated, and things are only more complicated when dealing with a transnational and transracial situation. I could appreciate the author's many contradictory feelings about her childhood and questions about her biological sisters and parents, as well as her various parents' reactions to the situation.
This is a quiet book, and very moving, and had me choked up frequently.
I was captivated by this book—it’s beautiful writing and compelling story of an adopted Korean American who begins a search for her birth parents at the same time she’s becoming a parent herself. While difficult she finds so much more than she intended—both good and bad—and restores the narrative of her own family and the ones she’s creating to a place of strength and empowerment.
This book gave me a serious book hangover. Like, SERIOUS. Centered around the author’s journey of reaching out to her birth parents once finding out about her first pregnancy, as well as growing up Korean with white parents, it’s a beautiful book centered around sense of self. The artistic craft of Chung’s writing, how she poses her questions and concerns around her adoption and comes to terms with her life through her words, her thoughtfulness, and of course, the actual story of both of her families and of her life within the pages - all of it is so moving and so well written. She touches on her key themes - loneliness, childhood, regret, growing up Korean and what that means for her, and creating one’s own family - *so well*. I highly recommend this for anyone who loves memoirs, has any interest in adoption stories, or just wants to read a moving tale of one woman’s journey of finding out what family means to her. It’s only the first month of 2019, but I feel like I can confidently say this will be one of my favorites this year.