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A Living Remedy: A memoir by Nicole Chung

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A Living Remedy with Nicole Chung

Author Talk

2023-04-06 19:00:00 2023-04-06 21:00:00 America/New_York A Living Remedy with Nicole Chung Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library - Auditorium

Thursday, April 06
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-04-06 19:00:00 2023-04-06 21:00:00 America/New_York A Living Remedy with Nicole Chung A conversation with Nicole Chung for her new book A Living Remedy Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library - Auditorium

A conversation with Nicole Chung for her new book A Living Remedy

Join the Library and Loyalty Bookstores for a live, in-person event with Nicole Chung and Kat Chow to celebrate the launch of A Living Remedy

Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event. A limited number will be given away courtesy of the DC Public Library Foundation

ABOUT THE BOOK

From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she’s lost.

In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you’d hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship behind, yet are unable to bring anyone else with them.

Nicole Chung couldn’t hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found community and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in – where there are big homes, college funds, nice vacations – looks very different from the middle class world she thought she grew up in, where paychecks have to stretch to the end of the week, health insurance is often lacking, and there are no safety nets.

When her father dies at only sixty-seven, killed by diabetes and kidney disease, Nicole feels deep grief as well as rage, knowing that years of precarity and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his early death. And then the unthinkable happens – less than a year later, her beloved mother is diagnosed with cancer, and the physical distance between them becomes insurmountable as COVID-19 descends upon the world.

Exploring 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 – and sheds needed light on some of the most persistent and grievous inequalities in American society. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicole Chung is the author of a new memoir, A Living Remedy. Her bestselling first book, All You Can Ever Know, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, an Indies Choice Honor Book, and an official Junior Library Guild crossover selection. Chung's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, GQ, The Guardian, Vulture, and Slate, among other publications. Visit her at Twitter and Instagram at @nicolesjchung. 

ABOUT THE IN CONVERSATION PARTNER

Kat Chow is a writer and a journalist. She was previously a reporter at NPR, where she was a founding member of the Code Switch team. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and on Radiolab, among others. She’s one of Pop Culture Happy Hour’s fourth chairs. She’s received a residency fellowship from the Millay Colony and was an inaugural recipient of the Yi Dae Up fellowship at the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat. 

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Talk |

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