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All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
5.0

This is a really lovely book, and I so enjoyed spending the day enmeshed in the author's journey towards reunion with some of her birth family. As I expected, Chung writes eloquently about all her adoption gave her but also what it caused her to lose. She beautiful connects pieces of her story to her birth family, adoptive family, and her created family with her husband and children, and I never lost the arc of the story, which I find often executed far less gracefully in memoirs. I very much recommend this book, especially for lovers of memoirs or family stories, or folks looking for a personal examination of adoption.