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Author Chung, Nicole, author.

Title A living remedy : a memoir / Nicole Chung.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Ecco an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, [2023]
©2023

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CHUNG    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium    On Order
 Bristol, Main Library - New Materials  B CHUNG, NICOLE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO CHUNG    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult New Materials Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY CHUNG    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - New Materials  BIOGRAPHY CHUNG, NICOLE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - New Materials  B CHUNG    DUE 04-06-24
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  B CHUNG, NICOLE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO CHUNG    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - New Book Area  NEW B CHUNG, NICOLE    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 239 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief--a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship behind, yet are unable to bring anyone else with them. When Nicole Chung graduated from high school, she couldn't hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found a sense of community she had always craved as an Asian American adoptee - and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in - where there are big homes, college funds, nice vacations - looks very different from the middle class world she thought she grew up in, where paychecks have to stretch to the end of the week, health insurance is often lacking, and there are no safety nets. When her father dies at only sixty-seven, killed by diabetes and kidney disease, Nicole feels deep grief as well as rage, knowing that years of financial instability and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his premature death. And then the unthinkable happens - less than a year later, her beloved mother is diagnosed with cancer, and the physical distance between them becomes insurmountable as Covid descends upon the world. Exploring the enduring strength of family bonds in the face of hardship and tragedy, A Living Remedy examines what it takes to reconcile the distance between one life, one home, and another - and sheds needed light on some of the most persistent and tragic inequalities in American society."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Chung, Nicole.
Adoptees -- Oregon -- Biography.
Korean American adoptees -- Oregon -- Biography.
Interracial adoption -- Oregon -- Biography.
Equality -- United States.
Income distribution -- United States.
Grief -- United States.
Adoptive parents -- United States -- Death.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Adoptees. (OCoLC)fst00797063
Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
Grief. (OCoLC)fst00947883
Income distribution. (OCoLC)fst00968670
Interracial adoption. (OCoLC)fst00977475
Oregon. (OCoLC)fst01204579
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Chung, Nicole. Living remedy New York, NY : Ecco, [2023] 9780063031630 (DLC) 2022038946
ISBN 9780063031616 (hardcover)
0063031612 (hardcover)
9780063031623 (trade paperback)
0063031620 (trade paperback)
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