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This beloved memoir "is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general" (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR) "Chung's writing is never overtly sentimental, but it's crisp and clear and evocative .. Chung manages to make every moment she spent second-guessing her decision to search feel newly relevant... Though the story is intensely personal, it's never myopic and, ultimately, it's universal." - Mariya Karimjee, NPRWhat does it mean to lose your roots - within your culture, within your family - and what happens when you find them? 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

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Author

Nicole Chung

Publisher

Catapult Book Group

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781948226370

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Social Science

Rating

5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14