![]() insightful memoir.… Chung's clear, direct approach to her experience, which includes the birth of her daughter as well as her investigation of her family, reveals her sharp intelligence and willingness to examine difficult emotions. ( Starred review) This touching memoir explores issues of identity, racism, motherhood, and sisterhood with eloquence and grace. ( Starred review) stunning memoir.… Chung’s writing is vibrant and provocative as she explores her complicated feelings about her transracial adoption (which she "loved and hated in equal measure") and the importance of knowing where one comes from. Transracial adoption …looks far more complicated under Chung’s kind but implacably honest gaze. In this much-anticipated memoir, Chung brings her clear and thoughtful prose to the task of untangling the legacy of her adoption to white parents in Oregon. ![]() What gives All You Can Ever Know its power is the emotional honesty in every line, essential to the telling of a story so personal.… All You Can Ever Know, sometimes painfully and always beautifully, explores what it means to be adopted, to be a different race from the family you grew up in, and to later create a family of your own. Chung’s search for her biological roots …has to be one of this year’s finest books, let alone memoirs.…Chung has literary chops to spare and they’re on full display in descriptions of her need, pain and bravery.Ī Korean American adopted by white parents in Oregon, Chung writes movingly of her search to find her birth parents her personal quest leads not only to her own story, but also to meditations on race, parenthood, and the construction of identity.
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