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.

This latest memoir exhibits both a hard-won maturity and a thick-skinned resilience the other book lacked.

A Living Remedy is most powerful when Chung frames the story of her parents’ deaths as an unnecessary tragedy brought on by the broken health care system in this country..

[Chung] does excavate some hard truths, especially about transracial adoption; but I also came away from that account struck by the deep love Chung expressed for her adoptive parents.

Chung’s prose hones her grief into razor-sharp insights even as her words interrogate, honor, and celebrate the unbreakable bonds of parenthood..

As Chung immerses readers in her experience of grief, her powerful words compel us to follow her on a beautiful but difficult journey of loss.

Melancholy.

Examines and expiates the vexing circumstances of her parents' deaths.