{"product_id":"almost-brown-a-memoir-hardcover-1","title":"Almost Brown: A Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Gill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAlmost Brown\u003c\/i\u003e is that rarest of things: a memoir that is both deeply intimate and intellectually ambitious.\"--Susan Orlean, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Library Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharlotte 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlmost Brown\u003c\/i\u003e 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 drift apart because they just aren't compatible. But as she too finds herself distancing from her father--\u003ci\u003eWhy is she embarrassed to walk down the street with him and not her mom?\u003c\/i\u003e--she doesn't know if it's because of his personality or his race. Is this her own unconscious bias favoring one parent over the other in the racial tug-of-war that plagues our society? \u003ci\u003eAlmost Brown \u003c\/i\u003elooks for answers to questions shared by many mixed-race people: \u003ci\u003e What am I? What does it mean to be a person of color when the concept is a societal invention and really only applies halfway if you are half white? \u003c\/i\u003eEventually, after years of silence, Gill and her father reclaim a space for forgiveness and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming story, Gill examines the brilliant messiness of ancestry, \"diversity,\" and the idea of \"race,\" a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about ethnicity today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharlotte Gill\u003c\/b\u003e is a bestselling and award-winning writer of fiction and narrative nonfiction. \u003ci\u003eLadykiller\u003c\/i\u003e, her first book, was the recipient of the Danuta Gleed Award for short fiction. \u003ci\u003eEating Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e, a tree-planting memoir, was a #1 national bestseller in Canada. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eVogue \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Hazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e. Gill teaches writing in the MFA program in creative nonfiction at the University of King's College and is the Rogers Communications Chair of Literary Journalism at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She lives in British Columbia, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.35 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181598195961,"sku":"9780593443019","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bmpGUWV5V1ZWd2lSN1IzZ1dybS9Idz09_3dfbed7b-ec6f-4bc8-912c-b579d68d70cd.webp?v=1767762381","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/almost-brown-a-memoir-hardcover-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}