I was a fighter.
Chung was born to working-class Korean immigrants, and she came into the world with older birth siblings.
But she was given away in the hospital due, in part, to the potential for health complications.
Credit: Erica B. Tappis
The birth parents agreed to terminate the door for future contact.
She writes crisply, intimately, bringing us close to her experiences of pain, isolation, and discovery.
What truly enthralled me were the people: Never before had I been entirely surrounded by Asians.
Catapult
Through them, Chung reveals a family story of heartbreaking truth personal in its detail, universal in its complexity.B+
