- Asian Americans, Anecdotes, Ethnic identity, Race awareness in children
Chung investigates the mysteries and complexities of her transracial adoption in this chronicle of unexpected family for anyone who has struggled to figure out where they belong. Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. She was told her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But Nicole grew up facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn't see, and wondered if the story she'd been told was the whole truth. Here Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, and chronicles the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets. -- adapted from jacket
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- Author
- Nicole Chung
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Catapult, HighBridge Audio
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781948226370
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