From the Los Angeles Times, this is Asian enough.

Each week on this podcast, we talk to one Asian American guest about the joys, the complications,

and everything else that comes along with being Asian American.

I'm one of your hosts, Genyamato.

And I'm your other host, Tracy Brown.

Today we're joined by the writer Nicole Chung.

We may know her from her writing on life, identity, and parenting, or from her social media

presence, both of which have helped me get through this last year, particularly her work

examining racism, grief, and Asian American identity.

Her 2018 memoir, all you can ever know, Chronicles Nicole's upbringing in a white Catholic

family, her adoption story, and her journey to learn more about her Korean birth parents.

There are just all these little cultural touchstones, big and small, that don't necessarily

apply to adoptees.

So then we're sort of left wondering, you know, we're clearly not white, I think most

of us know that.

And so what is it that makes this Asian, or what is it that connects us to other Asian

American communities?

Nicole is also an advice columnist at Slate, a former editor at the toast, rest in pieces

of the toast, and she's currently the editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine.

Our conversation with Nicole Chung, coming up after this short break, don't go anywhere.

Do go anywhere, just kidding.

Hey, welcome back to Asian Enough.

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