"It was going to be a story about American instability, and precarity, and what happens when we aren't able to access the things that we need — and yet still have to try to care for each other anyway."

Nicole Chung's newest memoir, A Living Remedy, reflects on the tragic inequality of access to the American healthcare system and the way it directly affected her family. Chung talks with us about privilege and class, how writing this memoir changed her, her literary influences and more with Poured Over host, Miwa Messer. And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Madyson.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books (Episode):

A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

Featured Books (TBR Topoff):

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow