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Almost Brown : A Memoir by Charlotte Gill is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Almost Brown : A Memoir about?

An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. “ Almost Brown  is that rarest of things: a memoir that is both deeply intimate and intellectually ambitious.”—Susan Orlean, author of  The Library Book Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey from the United Kingdom to Canada to the United States in an elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it’s lived between race checkboxes. Their intercultural experiment features turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke. Over time, Gill’s parents

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Author
Charlotte Gill
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9780593443019
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Memoir, Science, Sociology

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