Nicole Chung

Chung is the author of the memoirs A Living Remedy and All You Can Ever Know

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How I Found the Holiday Spirit Amid Grief

"I think I’ve gotten better at living with joy and grief at once, no longer expecting one to rise up and conquer the other"

By Nicole Chung

Elizabeth Acevedo's First Novel for Adults Is Full of Magic

“I  never want to be known as this one single thing."

By Nicole Chung

'American Born Chinese' Reflects a New Era of Storytelling

The bestselling graphic novel finally comes to television

By Nicole Chung

The Person I Became After My Father's Death

An excerpt from Nicole Chung's new memoir A Living Remedy

By Nicole Chung

How Ocean Vuong Learned to Write for Himself

Vuong worked on his poetry collection Time Is a Mother while grieving his mother's death

By Nicole Chung

There's No End in Sight for COVID-19. What Do We Tell Our Kids Now?

Looking back, maybe I shouldn’t have used the phrase when this is over quite so often when talking about the pandemic with my kids.It wasn’t that I thought everything would return to the status quo,...

By Nicole Chung

I'm Grateful for the Hugs I Can Now Share–and Haunted by the Ones I Can't

I’m at the stage of pandemic life when I am still counting the hugs.The first time I invited a good friend not just over to but into my house, postvaccination, sans masks, I couldn’t even...

By Nicole Chung

I'm Tired of Trying to Educate White People About Anti-Asian Racism

As we continue to witness violence against Asian Americans–including, in the past month, the punching of a Bay Area father pushing his baby in a stroller; the assault on two women with a cement block...

By Nicole Chung

How a Pandemic Puppy Saved My Grieving Family

For years, whenever our children asked us if we could get a dog, my husband and I had some vague and only slightly encouraging go-to responses, such as, “Someday?” and “Maybe when you’re old enough...

By Nicole Chung

My White Parents Struggled to See Me as Asian

For the last year, and especially since the devastating Atlanta-area murders on March 16, many of my Asian American friends have been sharing deeply personal, painful stories of talking with their parents and elders, pleading...

By Nicole Chung

Grieving My Mom's Death From a Distance

This year on my mother’s birthday, in October, I woke up from one of many dreams I’ve had about her since her death. I’d been sitting with family and friends in my grandmother’s backyard, our...

By Nicole Chung

How Do I Decide Whether to Visit My Sick Mom?

Businesses, basketball games, Broadway shows, baby showers—every area of life has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s impossible to go an hour without hearing of another cancellation or closure. Like many others, I’ve spent...

By Nicole Chung
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