
A Living Remedy
A Memoir
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Narrated by:
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Jennifer Kim
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By:
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Nicole Chung
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Winner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * Today
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.
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Beautiful memoir
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A Living Remedy is about compassion, stupid, and a deep abiding love. It’s also another profound gesture of charity by a truly gifted writer for those, who, like me, probably need it the most.
Heartbreaking, gorgeous writing
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Points of Life
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I wasn’t bored, exactly, but several times I did find myself wondering why I was still listening - my own parents have been gone for many years, and no question, for most of us, the passing of one’s parents is a profoundly sad event ,but this seemed more than a little a overdone. True, her mother died of cancer during the pandemic, which offered a bit of universality to the account, reminding us of the horrors of those years, but very little of this chronicle has anything to do with her being a Korean child who had been adopted by non-Asian parents. We can say this: surely no biological child ever mourned the death of parents more than did this adopted daughter.
I doubt I’ll listen to this one again, but…. It wasn’t a waste of time. Just a book of marginal interest, but one that was well narrated and reasonably short.
Not really as advertised.
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Touched Me on a Personal Level
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A perfect remedy for your soul
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Beautiful and heartfelt
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A story of illness and death
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Honesty
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Lovely and poignant
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