In her debut memoir, All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung, a frequent contributor to glossy magazines and former editor of the millennial favorite The Toast, details how she came to be. Born premature and put up for adoption, Chung was raised in small-town Oregon by a family of white people. The narrative of her adoption, the story she’d always believed, was that her birth parents had been forced to give her up so she’d have a better life. As an adult, Chung started to wonder if that simple narrative was correct, and she began a search for the family that gave her up. In this searing memoir, Chung captures what it’s like to be different, and to discover the truth. by Katie Herzog