Join the Library and Loyalty Bookstores fo r a \;live\, in-person event with Nicole Chung and Kat Chow to cel ebrate the launch of \;A Living Remedy! \;
\nCopies of the book will be available for sale at the event. A limited number wil l be given away courtesy of the DC Public Library Foundation.&nbs p\;
\nABOUT THE B OOK
\nFrom the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVE R KNOW comes a searing memoir of family\, class and grief&mdash\;a daughte r&rsquo\;s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led\, the l ife she forged as an adult\, and the lives she&rsquo\;s lost.
\nIn t his country\, unless you attain extraordinary wealth\, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you&rsquo\;d hoped. You wil l learn to live with the specific\, hollow guilt of those who leave hardsh ip behind\, yet are unable to bring anyone else with them.
\nNicole Chung couldn&rsquo\;t hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon h ometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on t he East Coast\, no longer the only Korean she knew\, she found community a nd a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she be gins to raise a family in &ndash\; where there are big homes\, college fun ds\, nice vacations &ndash\; looks very different from the middle class wo rld she \;thought \;she grew up in\, where paychecks have to stret ch to the end of the week\, health insurance is often lacking\, and there are no safety nets.
\nWhen her father dies at only sixty-seven\, kil led by diabetes and kidney disease\, Nicole feels deep grief as well as ra ge\, knowing that years of precarity and lack of access to healthcare cont ributed to his early death. And then the unthinkable happens &ndash\; less than a year later\, her beloved mother is diagnosed with cancer\, and the physical distance between them becomes insurmountable as COVID-19 descend s upon the world.
\nExploring 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 &ndash\; and sheds needed light on some of the most persistent an d grievous inequalities in American society. \;
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR
\ nNicole Chung \;is the author of a new memoir\, \;A \;Livin g Remedy. \;Her bestselling first book\, \;All You Can Ever Know\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, a semifinalis t for the PEN Open Book Award\, an Indies Choice Honor Book\, and an offic ial Junior Library Guild crossover selection. Chung's writing has appeared in \;The New York Times Magazine\, Time\, GQ\, The Guardian\, \;V ulture\, \;and \;Slate\, among other publications. \;Visit her at Twitter and Instagram at \;@nicolesjchung. \;
\nABOUT THE IN CONVERSATION PARTN ER
\nKat Chow \;is a writer and a journalist. Sh e was previously a reporter at NPR\, where she was a founding member of th e Code Switch team. Her work has appeared in \;The New York Times Maga zine\, The Atlantic\, \;and on Radiolab\, among others. She&rsquo\;s o ne of Pop Culture Happy Hour&rsquo\;s fourth chairs. She&rsquo\;s received a residency fellowship from the Millay Colony and was an inaugural recipi ent of the Yi Dae Up fellowship at the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat.&n bsp\;
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