Almost Brown: A Mixed-Race Family Memoir LA and how it can ground

and how it can ground us when we feel untethered

Her work includes Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom

Salt-and-Pepper Pork Chops with Vinegared Scallions

unravelling a family mystery piece by piece

another narrative takes shape—of the country’s erased history of exploitation and slaughter at the hands of American occupying forces

Almost Brown: A Mixed-Race Family Memoir LA and how it can groundAn award winning writer retraces her unconventional, biracial, globe trotting familys journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gills 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,