All You Can Ever Know in The Toast

Dec 09, 2018 grosbeak rated it it was amazing

Shelves: b-i-poc-authors, nonfic

This was incredible! Nikki Chung is a tremendously brilliant and skilled writer. The careful pacing, clever juxtapositions, and compassion and measured thoughtfulness with which she told her story took my breath away.

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Dec 17, 2018 Aidan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018-challenge

Memoirs are not usually my thing, but I've been reading Nicole Chung's work since her time with The Toast, and I have always found her prose clear and readable, and her topics interesting. This is an excellent book. Chung's prose doesn't disappoint, and I found myself as invested in her journey as I would be were I reading fiction: constantly hoping, "Oh, I hope this turns out well!"

This is not, of course, a work of fiction, as it is a deeply personal recounting of Chung's experience of being a ...more

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Mar 06, 2019 Ren rated it it was amazing

Masterful and moving

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Dec 14, 2018 Cate rated it really liked it

Shelves: icpl, audio, eaudio-avail-at-library, genre-nonfiction-memoir-bio-autobio, read-in-2018, reviewed

An honest, clear-eyed look at adoption and racism, and the impacts of both on her her birth family and her adoptive family. I loved reading about the blended family she created for herself.

I've enjoyed Nicole Chung's writing since the days of The Toast, and I've read parts of this story in shorter form. It was very satisfying to finally read the pieces in their overall context. ...more

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