{"product_id":"almost-brown-a-memoir-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\u003eCharlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act, 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 and to the United States in 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 parents of two different races and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it's lived between race checkboxes. Eventually, her parents drift apart because they just aren't compatible. But as she finds herself distancing from her father too--\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. As a mixed-race child, was 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 are you? 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? And how does your relationship with your parents change as you change and grow older?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593443019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\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","brand":"Charlotte Gill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42835574980789,"sku":"9780593443019","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d7b49e10-957e-4dc1-a0c0-671b63227396.jpg?v=1681223091","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/almost-brown-a-memoir-9780593443019","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}