Download or read book Almost Brown written by Charlotte Gill and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Canadian masterpiece." —Toronto Star A tender and incisive memoir tracing the journey of a biracial, globe-trotting family that reckons with diversity, race, and identity, from the award-winning author of Eating Dirt. It wasn’t simply a question of skin, or belonging, or the Englishness of Mom, or the Indianness of Dad, or some murky middle state in between. It had become a curry of emotion and allegiance and identity, everything cooked together, all at once. With an Indian father and an English mother, young Charlotte Gill’s family houses a dizzying blend of two distinctly different cultures, featuring turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke. Until, one day, the family implodes. Her parents divorce, her intercultural world fractures, and a silence falls between Charlotte and her father. Charlotte heads off to university. Inheriting her family’s nomadic nature, she takes off backpacking and eagerly wears her passport down to a pulp. And as the years pass, her father’s absence feels heavier, a loss that only seems to grow. She begins to unravel how connection to family is inextricably linked to identity: her childhood, her understanding of race and diversity, and her ability to reclaim space for forgiveness and love. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two deeply eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children, who experience the paradoxes of life as it’s lived between race checkboxes. It’s a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming memoir about the brilliant messiness of a mixed-race family and a search for answers to the question, What are you?
Download or read book Almost Brown written by Charlotte Gill and published by Crown. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 drift apart because they just aren’t compatible. But as she too finds herself distancing from her father—Why is she embarrassed to walk down the street with him and not her mom?—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? Almost Brown looks for answers to questions shared by many mixed-race people: 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? Eventually, after years of silence, Gill and her father reclaim a space for forgiveness and love. 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.
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