Our Fall 2024 One Book Project: "All You Can Ever Know" by Nicole Chung

 

This year's One Book Project that CSU Bakersfield's International Book Club will be reading is Nicole Chung's memoir All You Can Ever Know.

Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that 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 as Nicole grew up—facing prejudice her adoptive family couldn’t see, finding her identity as an Asian American and as a writer, becoming ever more curious about where she came from—she wondered if the story she’d been told was the whole truth.

With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets—vital reading for anyone who has ever struggled to figure out where they belong. (book description from Catapult Books)

CSUB's International Book Club is excited to read this book this Fall alongside our campus's freshman composition classes, Kern High School District English classes, and other community members of Kern County.

We expect our Keynote Speech Event: An Evening with Nicole Chung to take place on:

Thursday, October 24, 2024, 7:00PM, at our CSUB Icardo Center