作者简介

Nicole Chung has written for The New York Times, GQ, Longreads, BuzzFeed, Hazlitt, and Shondaland, among other publications. She is Catapult magazine's editor in chief and the former managing editor of The Toast. All You Can Ever Know is her first book. Follow her on Twitter at @nicole_soojung.

内容简介

What 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 she came from―she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth.

With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets―vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong.


Nicole Chung has written for The New York Times, GQ, Longreads, BuzzFeed, Hazlitt, and Shondaland, among other publications. She is Catapult magazine's editor in chief and the former managing editor of The Toast. All You Can Ever Know is her first book. Follow her on Twitter at @nicole_soojung.

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  • 多喜子
    [有声书] 很赞的一本回忆录!一个早产宝宝,被亲生韩国父母送出去领养,成长于俄勒冈州周围几乎没有亚洲人面孔的地方。后来因为自己结婚怀孕,需要医疗历史,开始寻根。领养的来龙去脉令人揪心,延续下一代和寻根将生活轨迹推向未知。很感人!12-03
  • ZZ
    非常感人的回忆录。寻找自己的亲生母亲是多么令人心碎的一个过程。令人欣慰的是作者找到了她的姐妹,也算是有了依靠的家人。09-18
  • Ann
    能感觉到作者很真诚,也写得很personal,但是不知道为什么就完全不打动我…02-18
  • Schewimmer
    [有聲書] 韓裔被領養女孩尋找自己,在這過程中讓周圍的人也完整起來的故事。看過的第一本關於這樣身世的群體的書,感受到那種因為身世未知,夾在對眼前生活的隱隱疑問和對血親家庭的陌生之間的猶疑,對兩邊家庭的感受小心翼翼和求解自己內心疑問的迫切的複雜情緒。真是太複雜了。06-07
  • Y门食客
    美国人领养了许多亚洲孤儿,多为女童,我一直好奇他们的生活是怎么样的。Nicole出生后被韩国移民父母送去一个白人家庭领养。这本回忆录聚焦的是,被领养使她失去了什么,而非获得了什么。她成年后开始寻找原生家庭。起初我不理解是为何。难道是人类本性使然,驱动人亲近与自己有血缘关系的人?慢慢地我觉得,是孤独使然。亚洲人在美国的融入度很低,作者从小到大经历了太多与她亚洲血统相关的不愉快经历,虽然她完全是美国人,只是一副亚洲人的外表罢了。她没有形成坚定的自我认同,这使得她非常渴望亲近自己的同族,与她有着相似容貌的同族。她的容貌是她被排斥、不被接受的主要原因。当她第一次见到自己的亲生姐姐时,注意力全放在她俩何处相似何处不似。她太渴望与自己相似的人,能够完全理解自己人。亚裔在美国实在是一个被边缘化的族群。01-02

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