All You Can Ever Know in The Toast

May 19, 2019 bijal rated it it was amazing

i have always enjoyed nicole chung's writing since i, like so many, was introduced to it via the toast (RIP 😭), and this was no exception.

this was foremost a book about about transracial adoption, but also a book about love and family and belonging and choices and wanting, hoping, wishing, believing, and immigrants and identity and questioning, forgiveness, listening, and understanding, and acceptance - none of which are exclusive to transracial adoption or even any adoption, but are so unique w ...more

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May 27, 2019 Erica rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I enjoyed this memoir a lot, and appreciated how honest and thoughtful it was surrounding transracial adoption. Hard recommend.

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Oct 25, 2018 Alicia rated it really liked it

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I feel like I have been waiting foreverrrrrrr to read this, but it was undoubtedly worth the wait! Chung's memoir is beautifully written, intensely personal, and extremely compelling, discussing her childhood as a Korean-American adopted by a white family (in a very white area of Oregon), and then her journey to find her birth family as she was on the verge of having her first child. A quick and moving read. A/A-. ...more

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Dec 18, 2018 Melanie rated it really liked it

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As a fan of the website The Toast and a follower of Nicole Chung's on Twitter, I was predisposed to like this book and I did. It's kind of crazy that transracial adoption still isn't something discussed very often from the adoptee's point of view, and this memoir takes a very nuanced look at transracial adoption but also at motherhood and family. ...more

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