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Just. Love. This: "One of the main things I’m trying to do with everything I write is to have it be good company for a reader, whatever they’re going through"

Can't wait to read A Living Remedy...

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She's just so lovely.

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Nicole Chung's grasp of what makes memoir work best is why I read her. She has also shown enormous generosity and compassion to writers in her work with the Atlantic. Finally, I love -- absolutely adore -- Peggy and how the arrival of that puppy into Nicole's life opened a way for her to keep a finger on joy as she endured all those losses and then wrote about them with such grace. Loved this brief interview with her. Thank you @Elizabeth.

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Loved this interview and I’m definitely putting Nicole Chung on my TBR. I appreciated this: “I think one way memoir justifies its existence is meeting readers where they are and hopefully encouraging them to think about their own experiences, their own lives and their own losses.”

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I just added all of Nicole’s books to my TBR list - what a lovely interview!

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A great interview - thanks Elizabeth!

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Wonderful interview! ✨

I’ve read both of Ms. Chung’s memoirs and found so much to relate to as someone who was also relinquished from my original family & raised by genetic strangers... So, thank you!

If you haven’t yet read Shannon Gibney, you’re in for a treat... great backlist, and her most recent (The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be) is a sci-fi speculative memoir of transracial adoption that blew me away! 🤯

I preordered & am excited to start When We Become Ours... Representation matters! Adoptee Voices are Own Voices, and if you’d like, you can find more adoptee authored books 📚 by searching Goodreads for #adopteevoices:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/adopteevoices

Thanks again for this interview (especially during November, AKA, National Adoption Awareness Month here in the US)! ✨

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