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/100
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49/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Nicole Chung
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
April 4, 2023
From the author of All You Can Ever Know comes a memoir of family, class and griefâa daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost.
What The Reviewers Say
In her clear, concise prose, Chung makes the personal political, tackling everything from America’s crushingly unjust health care system to the country’s gauzy assumptions about adoption, a practice that is itself rooted in economic inequality. Her observations are particularly timely at a moment when life expectancy in the United States is falling.
Moving.
She focuses on the tenuousness of her family's financial resources and access to health care while acknowledging the commonality of her story.
Chung crafts a deeply personal reckoning with our country's entrenched inequalities and an elegy for her parents.
