Summary of Nicole Chung's All You Can Ever Know

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Get the Summary of Nicole Chung's All You Can Ever Know in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up—facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from—she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638158165

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Insights on Nicole Chung's All You Can Ever Know A Memoir

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author’s mother told her the story of how she got her first job at the age of fourteen.

#2

Family lore, or traditions, are incredibly important to us. They serve as the bedrock of our beliefs, and often times, our faiths.

#3

The author, who is Korean American, was the only Korean her friends and family knew. She was adopted and grew up feeling like she didn’t fit in anywhere.

#4

When she left home, she was proud of her Asian heritage, but didn’t know how to reconcile her Korean heritage with being American.

#5

The author, who was adopted, was the only Asian kid in her class growing up. She was also the only kid in her class who was adopted.

#6

When her family met her boyfriend’s family, the author was so nervous because she was sure her parents would not like or accept him.

#7

Adoption is not a bad thing, and it does not make the person who was adopted bad.

#8

The author was taunted for being