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From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.

I'm Nina Kim.

You may be familiar with writer Nicole Chong's first book, All You Can Ever Know,

that chronicled her search for her birth family as a Korean adoptee to white

parents. In her new memoir called A Living Remedy, Chung focuses on her adoptive parents, who died

recently, burdened by health care costs to their final days. Sickness and grief throw wealthy and

poor families alike into upheaval, Chung writes, but they do not

transcend the gulfs between us, as some claim. If anything, they often magnify them. We'll look

at how class and adoption can complicate grief after this news. I'm Mina Kim. Welcome to Forum.

Writer Nicole Chung recently lost both her parents within two years of each other. They were in their 60s.

Her father struggled with diabetes and kidney failure. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer.

In a new memoir, Chung examines their deaths and her grief,

which were complicated by health care costs and the financial burdens that plagued her parents

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