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All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung has been sitting on my TBR for entirely too long, and I was super excited to finally pick it up. When the book started with an epigraph by Mary Oliver, I knew I was going to love it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ AYCEK is a memoir about Chung’s experience as a transracial adoptee (a Korean woman adopted by white parents) growing up in a predominantly white town in Oregon. Always profoundly impacted by her adoption and otherness, it was not until she reached adulthood that Chung began confronting the family lore about her birth and discovered there was more to know about her families - both biological and adopted - than she ever could have guessed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As Chung prepares to become a mother herself, she reflects on her childhood, the casual racism and problematic colorblindness she experienced, and the way in which her adoption was so central to her identity. When you discover that the stories you built your self around aren’t true after all, what does that mean about who you really are? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ID: A hardcover copy of All You Can Ever Know stands in front of two small potted snake plants on a white shelf. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CQLomwLL3zg/