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A Living Remedy: A Memoir
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A LIVING REMEDY is an absolutely heartbreaking and beautiful memoir from ALL I CAN EVER KNOW author, Nicole Chung. In her first memoir, she focuses on her adoption and search for her birth family. In her newest memoir, she writes about her life after she leaves her (very white) hometown in Oregon and finding herself needing, wanting to come home for her parents but unable to. She writes about the broken healthcare system, financial instability, her grief and then rage.
This has easily become my new all-time favorite memoir. And I feel conflicted saying that someone’s loss is now a “favorite” of mine—it makes me feel disingenuous. But, let me explain.
When I say that this book moved me would be an understatement. Nicole Chung has this incredible ability to write about loss and grief in a way that is tangible and visceral. Yes, reading this book devastated me. I think I cried 95% of the book. And, mind you, I have not experienced the loss of a parent, so I cannot fully understand but oh, how I imagined. I imagined over and over again about my parents, and what they have kept and are still keeping from me to protect me. Imagined over and over again about my young children, and what I would do to protect them, what I would do so that I don’t become a burden.
The writing is beautiful, there is no doubt. But, a lot of writing can be beautiful. But not a lot of writing carries depth and intention. I am not a writer. I am a reader, and as a reader, reading this was… profound.
Thank you to the publisher for the gifted ARC.
This has easily become my new all-time favorite memoir. And I feel conflicted saying that someone’s loss is now a “favorite” of mine—it makes me feel disingenuous. But, let me explain.
When I say that this book moved me would be an understatement. Nicole Chung has this incredible ability to write about loss and grief in a way that is tangible and visceral. Yes, reading this book devastated me. I think I cried 95% of the book. And, mind you, I have not experienced the loss of a parent, so I cannot fully understand but oh, how I imagined. I imagined over and over again about my parents, and what they have kept and are still keeping from me to protect me. Imagined over and over again about my young children, and what I would do to protect them, what I would do so that I don’t become a burden.
The writing is beautiful, there is no doubt. But, a lot of writing can be beautiful. But not a lot of writing carries depth and intention. I am not a writer. I am a reader, and as a reader, reading this was… profound.
Thank you to the publisher for the gifted ARC.
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