A compelling and compassionate memoir in which Chung pieces together the story behind her adoption while she is pregnant with her first child. A sickly baby born prematurely to an Asian-American couple in Seattle, Chung is adopted by a white couple and grows up in a predominantly white town. Chung grapples with the WHY of being given up for adoption (and the terms we use around the process), and also the strength of the relationships with her adoptive parents as she navigates to find the people she is related to by blood. It's a memoir full of tension that made me cry more than once, especially as Chung unveils only pieces of information before laying it all out later. I learned so much from this book. It's not a story we see much in non-fiction or fiction, and I think Chung does a tremendous job of letting the reader in to her struggle and self-doubt and self-discovery.

I was always interested in this book when I first heard of it, I'm sad it took me so long to get to! I remember coming across her name again and again on internet pieces that I loved. Her 2015 article in the New York Times entitled "What I Learned from Kristi Yamaguchi" speaks to lack of representation, and the thrill of finding it. A few years ago, John Cho sat next to me and my friends at a hotel lobby bar in a finely tailored navy suit. You might say the encounter changed me