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2023., Adult, Viking Call No: NEW Bio G475a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. And although they couldn't be more different, they meet in 1960's London when, despite the prevailing image of free love, the world was not 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. Along the way, they venture from the United Kingdom to Canada and to the United States in elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness--a pursuit 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. Charlotte distances herself from her larger-than-life father too, resulting in 20 years of silence--and, eventually, a complicated reunion. .
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c2011., General, Greystone Books Call No: 333.75 G475e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clearcuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clearcuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers.
