![]() ![]() having seriously sick parents during the pandemic - and not being able to fly home. I also was angry and sad, but I also felt so much love for Nicole.Īdd the horrors of COVID-19 …. …the heartbreak of losing her parents - the anger - regret - and dialogue about the failed healthcare system in this country was devastating to read. We also learned about Nicole’s marriage and her two children- (the heart- WARMING part)…. She lost them both in a very short period of time. Aching grief!!!!īoth of Nicole’s adoptive parents became seriously ill. ….her parents are getting weaker - due to medical health reasons.Īnd boy…. ![]() In “A Living Remedy” - also a memoir - we experience more of the grief - we get many ‘growing-up’ stories with friends of major economic differences, and plenty of Nicole’s insecurities identity, family, cultural challenges, prejudices, insecurities, personal strengths, (A student) - but mostly we feel how much she suffered as an Asian American-feelings of not belonging. She herself is Korean - from Korean parents.īoth books tell stories about Nicole’s life …. ….we learned that Nicole was born severely premature - placed for adoption -Nicole was raised in Oregon by White parents. ….the audiobook is 5 hours and 58 minutes.Īnother beautiful written book by Nicole Chung!!! 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 grievous inequalities in American society.Įbook - synced - alternated between the ebook and audiobook. 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-19 descends upon the world. 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 precarity and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his early death. 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. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found community and a path to the life she'd long wanted. Nicole Chung couldn’t hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. 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. 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. From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class 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.
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