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All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

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virgilius's review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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peoplecallmeteresa's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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leweylibrary's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I read her.second memoir before this one lol but I did like this one better. The religious bits were a lot less frequent, but there were a LOT more about pregnancy and kids which I wasn't a huge fan of. Nevertheless, I know how big of a role those things played in her adoption story, so I get it. It was a really compelling and complicated story, and I'm impressed that she wrote about it so eloquently.

I can identity in some ways because of my being a test tube baby and my parents' separation when I was in early middle school. I got a lot of the same questions about wanting to know my "real" dad, but pushing my mind several steps further to consider not only having no biological relations around you AND being a visibly different race from your family...that's intense.

I feel like I still have a lot of questions having read her second book first, like what thoughts and emotions she was having about her biological family whom she did meet and talked to while her adopted parents were having their health issues and eventually dying. It was really lovely seeing her relationship with her sister take form, especially since my relationship with my own sister is a little like it, even if we aren't related by blood.

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Nicole's story is equally beautiful and gut wrenching. I think this book can appeal to a lot of different types of people regardless of being an adoptee as she truthfully discusses topics of identity crisis, racism, motherhood, and tuning into your heritage after not having been fully immersed in it. This is a fantastic companion to 'Crying In H Mart' and should be required reading for anyone looking to do transracial adoptions or adopt a child in general.

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emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

I usually say that I’m not a fan of nonfiction books, but I might need to stop saying that because this is the second memoir I have read and enjoyed a lot (maybe I just need to read more memoirs instead)
Anyway this book was really interesting, the author is a really good storyteller and I really like the writing style in this, it felt very personal and I liked that a lot :)

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