Nicole Chung A Living Remedy: A Memoir

《A Living Remedy》通过妮可·钟的个人经历，深入探讨了身份、家庭、心理健康以及美国社会中的不平等现象。书中，作者详细讲述了她与父母在医疗保健服务方面面临的挑战，以及这些挑战如何影响她的生活和思考。同时，作者还分享了自己在面对失去、心理健康问题和童年创伤时的感受和经历。

书中，妮可·钟通过个人故事，深入探讨了身份和家庭的关系。她讲述了自己作为亚裔美国人在社会中的定位和感受，以及家庭对她个人成长和身份认同的影响。

‌作者坦诚地分享了自己在面对心理健康问题时的挣扎和寻求治愈的过程。她通过个人经历，呼吁社会对心理健康问题给予更多的关注和理解。
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书中还揭示了美国社会中存在的医疗保健不平等现象。通过作者与父母的亲身经历，读者可以深刻感受到这种不平等对个人和家庭的巨大影响。

妮可·钟的写作风格平实而真挚，她以第一人称的视角，将读者带入自己的内心世界。书中语言流畅，情感真挚，使读者能够深刻感受到作者的痛苦、挣扎和希望。同时，作者还巧妙地运用了比喻和象征等修辞手法，增强了书籍的文学性和感染力。这部书籍不仅是一部个人成长的记录，更是一部引人深思的社会现象剖析。对于关注心理健康、社会不平等以及个人成长的读者来说，这本书无疑是一个值得一读的佳作。

书名：A Living Remedy: A Memoir

作者：Nicole Chung

简介：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.