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A Living Remedy: A Memoir
A Living Remedy A Memoir
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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. — In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your... more »
Nicole Chung 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 community 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 precarity and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his early 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-19 descends upon the world
Author:
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. — In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your... more »
Nicole Chung 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 community 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 precarity and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his early 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-19 descends upon the world
ISBN-13: 9780063031616
ISBN-10: 0063031612
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Pages: 256
Rating: 1
ISBN-10: 0063031612
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Pages: 256
Rating: 1
4.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Ecco
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 19
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 19
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Community & Culture >> Asian & Asian American
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Memoirs
