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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Nicole Chung writes of family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures.
Description:
Nicole Chung has written two memoirs in five years—both about loss and family. The first is the highly acclaimed All You Can Ever Know which was a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award. It explores the circumstances of her adoption as a Korean American by a white family who were advised take a colorblind approach to parenting, the implications of that decision for Chung, her successful search as an adult to find her birth family, and the loving support of her adoptive parents. Her recently released second memoir A Living Remedy deals with the deaths of he...