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A review by camila8a
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
2.0
I really wish I could give this book more stars. It’s such an important story, such important topics that society has to address. Unfortunately there are so few places where we can hear adoptions stories, and I understand it’s not fair to expect one person to write the perfect book.
The book felt really flat to me. I wish the writer had gone deeper into her relationship with her parents and their thoughts about her reaching out to her birth family, race, religion, how she started getting in touch with other adoptees, why she isn’t in touch with her half sister, etc. I wish the book had been more reflective, more critical, guiding readers deeper into this complicated questions. Instead we just dip our toes in, get small glimpses into conversations and reflections. The book was focused too much on her life trajectory, all the steps she took.
I also had a hard time reading it because of the writing, it was bland, scattered, and with strangely composed sentences that made it tiresome to read. It was long and repetitive and felt like an essay turned into a book.
The book felt really flat to me. I wish the writer had gone deeper into her relationship with her parents and their thoughts about her reaching out to her birth family, race, religion, how she started getting in touch with other adoptees, why she isn’t in touch with her half sister, etc. I wish the book had been more reflective, more critical, guiding readers deeper into this complicated questions. Instead we just dip our toes in, get small glimpses into conversations and reflections. The book was focused too much on her life trajectory, all the steps she took.
I also had a hard time reading it because of the writing, it was bland, scattered, and with strangely composed sentences that made it tiresome to read. It was long and repetitive and felt like an essay turned into a book.