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082 00 306.850971|aB|223/eng/20221207 
100 1  Gill, Charlotte,|d1971-|eauthor. 
245 10 Almost brown /|cCharlotte Gill. 
250    First edition. 
263    2306 
264  1 New York :|bCrown,|c[2023] 
300    242 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  A Little Circle -- Colonial Love -- Half-Castes in 
       Wonderland -- Limbo -- What Are You? -- Goodbye, 
       Motherland -- Naturalized Citizens -- Towelhead -- How 
       Should a Daughter Be? -- A Moonbeam from Lightning -- 
       Zones of Alienation -- Something to Declare -- Borderlands
       -- Fibrillations -- A Well-Worn Groove -- Bubbles -- Beige
       Utopia -- Inheritance. 
520    "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. 
       Charlotte 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. Almost Brown 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--
       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. 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? 
       Almost Brown looks for answers to questions shared by many
       mixed-race people: 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? 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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Gill, Charlotte,|d1971-|xFamily. 
600 17 Gill, Charlotte,|d1971-|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01957673 
650  0 Racially mixed women|zCanada|vBiography. 
650  0 Racially mixed people|zCanada|vBiography. 
650  0 Racially mixed families|zCanada. 
650  0 Racially mixed families|zTexas. 
650  0 Race awareness in children. 
650  0 Women authors, Canadian|vBiography. 
650  0 Immigrants|zCanada|vBiography. 
650  0 British|zCanada|vBiography. 
650  7 British.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00839044 
650  7 Families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01728849 
650  7 Immigrants.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00967712 
650  7 Race awareness in children.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01086462 
650  7 Racially mixed families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01896542 
650  7 Racially mixed people.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01086595 
650  7 Racially mixed women.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01741525 
650  7 Women authors, Canadian.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01177235 
651  0 Canada|vBiography. 
651  7 Canada.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204310 
651  7 Texas.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210336 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aGill, Charlotte, 1971-|tAlmost brown.
       |bFirst edition|dNew York : Crown, [2023]|z9780593443026
       |w(DLC)  2022056993 
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