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Finder and keeper: two family memoirs reviewed

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

4 July 2020

9:00 AM

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir of Adoption Nicole Chung

One, pp.320, 9.99

The Fragments of My Father: A Memoir of Madness, Love and Being a Carer Sam Mills

Fourth Estate, pp.320, 16.99

What can we ever know about our family’s past? How do we love those closest to us when doing so brings us to the edge of insanity? Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know and Sam Mills’s The Fragments of My Father explore both of these questions.

Chung’s memoir takes on a sleuth-like quality as she describes the process of uncovering her birth family.

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