Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Donate today to support the music programming you love! Thank you to all our supporters.

Identity, Acceptance Permeate Nicole Chung’s New Memoir Of Adoption

All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

With Meghna Chakrabarti

When Nicole Chung looked in the mirror she saw a girl who didn’t look anything like her adoptive white parents. She tells the complicated story of transracial adoption in a new memoir.

Guests

Nicole Chungwriter, editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine. Author of “All You Can Ever Know.” (@nicole_soojung)

Joyce Maguire Pavao, psychologist, licensed clinical social worker and family therapist. Consultant at Pavao Consulting and Coaching who has advised public and private child welfare agencies, adoption agencies, schools, and community groups. Lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

From The Reading List

Excerpt from “All You Can Ever Know” by Nicole Chung

Excerpted from ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW by Nicole Chung. Copyright © 2018 by Nicole Chung. Excerpted with permission by Catapult.

Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.