{"product_id":"almost-brown-charlotte-gill-9780593443019","title":"Almost Brown: A Memoir","description":"\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlotte Gill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593443012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593443019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.59w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2023 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023 pg. 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2023 pg. 17","brand":"Charlotte Gill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072442200319,"sku":"9780593443019","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_748f7ac1-6fc2-4a46-ac3c-0c71afa36b29.jpg?v=1685441991","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/almost-brown-charlotte-gill-9780593443019","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}