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Pop-Up: Nicole Chung
PBF PassNovember 4, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Portland Art Museum
Nicole Chung pops-up for a reading in the Portland Art Museum galleries with the YA adoptee anthology When We Become Ours and her memoir A Living Remedy.
Chung is paired with the artwork Mandiani by Penda Diakite; found in the Black Artists of Oregon exhibit, on the 2nd floor of the Portland Art Museum.
There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres.
Portland Book Festival General Admission Passes are required for entry into all events. Passes are $15 in advance and $25 day of Festival. Youth 17 & under get in FREE. All full-priced General Admission Passes include a $5 book fair voucher and entry into Portland Art Museum. Passes admit attendees to the Festival; individual events are first-come, first-served. More info here.
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Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung is the author of the national bestseller All You Can Ever Know (2018). Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, Time, and many other outlets, All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and NAIBA Book of the Year, a semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, an Indies Choice Honor Book, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Nicole is currently a contributing writer at the Atlantic, a Time contributor, and a Slate columnist. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in the Washington, DC area. Her new book is the memoir A Living Remedy.
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