Catapult asked Nicole Chung:

Has your family read All You Can Ever Know? How did you feel about sharing it with them?

Nicole Chung My adoptive parents and all the birth family I'm in contact with have read it, yes. I wrote a little about sharing it with my parents here.

I always knew I wanted to share it with them, and that I wanted to do so well before publication—and at the same time I was a little anxious when the time came. But they were all incredibly supportive. My parents liked it and told me they found it truthful and powerful. My birth father told me he was proud of me. My sister said she felt represented and honored by the story, and that meant everything to me—because this is really our story, not just mine, and she generously allowed me to share it.

Since my adoptive father passed away unexpectedly earlier this year, I've been especially grateful that part of my parents' story together, including my dad and his love for me, is preserved and memorialized in this book. It is of course not the only way I will remember my dad or how much he loved me, but it's one way, and I really treasure that now. I am so glad I got to share those sections in particular with him before he died.

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