Enter to win 'All You Can Ever Know' by Nicole Chung 📚

A little thank you for being a Foreign Bodies subscriber

Hey Foreign Bodies readers, I’m so happy to share our next giveaway pick! All You Can Ever Know is a bestselling memoir by Catapult Magazine digital editorial director (and former managing editor of The Toast!) Nicole Chung about what she was and wasn’t told about her adoption—and her search for the Korean birth parents who gave her up. I was gifted this powerful book for my birthday a few years ago and can’t wait to share a new copy with one of you. Entries for this giveaway will be accepted through 8 p.m. EST on Friday, July 30th.

PSA: This giveaway is only open to paying subscribers or comps (gifted subscriptions). If you’re interested in subscribing but haven’t yet—click here!

Praise and love for All You Can Ever Know:

“Chung’s All You Can Ever Know takes the grammar of adoption—nouns, verbs, and direct object—and with extraordinary integrity remakes them into a narrative about what it means to be a subject. A primary document of witness, Chung writes her memoir as a transracial adoptee with honesty, wisdom, and love. Her search and what she discovers offer us life’s meaning and purpose of the very highest order.”
—Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko

Saba Sulaiman @agentsaba

hi, this is to confirm that everything anyone has ever said about how wonderful, wise + insightful @nicolesjchung's memoir ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW is 100% true. it was lovely and i know it'll stay with me for a long time.

monet p. thomas⁷ @monetwithlove

Finished @nicolesjchung’s All You Can Ever Know. My limited ideas about the adopted/adopters needed to be challenged & I’m better for it. 5/5 and may require tissues.

lenika 🌺 (ia) @lenikacruz

just finished @nicolesjchung’s memoir, “all you can ever know,” which means i was wiping away tears in the park. a beautiful, vulnerable story that i am grateful to have read. 🍃🌸

Also, I *had* to share this beautiful message from a reader:

Nicole Chung 정수정 @nicolesjchung

I've heard from 100s of adoptees since ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW was published. This is from the child of an adoptee, and I asked permission to share because 1) it made me cry, & 2) many of us talk about the intergenerational impact of adoption, & stories like this are eloquent proof

Giveaway rules

Entrants must be paying subscribers or gift recipients of the Foreign Bodies Newsletter and must have a valid mailing address. International applicants welcome for this giveaway. You may only enter once and must use the email address affiliated with your account. Each entry will be assigned a number and winner(s) will be chosen using the Random Integer Generator. Winner(s) will be notified via email and your gift will come personally packaged in the mail. If you win, you’ll receive an email to confirm your mailing address. Shipment tracking included.

If you have any additional questions or concerns, please email 4nbodies@gmail.com.

Recommend a book!

Have a favorite immigrant-written book, collection of essays or poetry or what-have-you? Stories that made you feel understood? Stories about immigrant or refugee experiences, about mental illness? Send your recommendations—especially if it’s your own work. And check out the wealth of books and essays we already have up on foreignbodies.net!

Are you an author?

Want your book or collection to be part of a Foreign Bodies giveaway? Just fill out this form and we’ll consider your work!

Love,
Fiza

• Giveaways

• Issues

• Foreign Bodies FAQs