This is the second memoir I've read about domestic transracial adoption (Bitterroot by Susan Devan Harness is the other). Both advocate for open adoptions, the chance to build memories with relatives who get it. "Get it" meaning the complications of being other in a white society, and also those family quirks that are more inherited than learned.

In Bitterroot, Susan Devan Harnass spends a lot of time explaining the bureaucracy involved and the decades of national policies meant to erase indigenous families. Nicole Chung faced a tiny fraction of that red tape and spends more time exploring her longings and fears as an adoptee and her family history. Her story has a very satisfying resolution and makes for a good book, something I wish more adoptees had.