Meet the Author: Nicole Chung

Nicole Chung discusses her critically acclaimed memoir All You Can Ever Know a profoundly 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. Chung was born extremely premature placed for adoption by her Korean immigrant parents and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town.From early 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 hopes of giving her a better life; that forever feeling slightly out of place was simply her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as she grew up - facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn't see finding her identity as an Asian American and a writer becoming ever more curious about where she came from - she wondered if the story she'd been told was the whole truth. Books available for purchase and signing.