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&nbsp;is that rarest of things: a memoir that is both deeply intimate and intellectually ambitious."--Susan Orlean, author of&nbsp;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&nbsp;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&nbsp;parents drift apart because they just aren't compatible. But as&nbsp;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&nbsp;favoring one parent over the other in the racial&nbsp;tug-of-war&nbsp;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,&nbsp;Gill&nbsp;examines the brilliant messiness of ancestry, "diversity," and the idea of "race,"&nbsp;a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about ethnicity today.

Almost Brown: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Gill, Charlotte

Community & Culture

Crown

Ladykiller is the astonishing debut collection of seven smart stories from an exciting new voice in Canadian literature. Charlotte Gill is a brilliant young writer who is not afraid to stare down the truth and shame the devil. She conjures compelling stories about escape, self-sabotage, and the power of unconscious desire. A couple plots against a crying baby in the apartment below as their dysfunctional relationship begins to veer off course. A hot-shot scuba-diving instructor falls for a teenaged girl in a perilous Lolita-like romance. Twin sisters travel to exotic lands in search of romance in order to rescue themselves from their own dark, intense bond. A woman reconnects with the son of her father's mistress, and together they begin an obsession with the past. A medical student embarks on an affair with a professor and discovers revolution in disastrous consequences. An unfaithful man takes his girlfriend to his ailing mother's for Christmas, only to find himself at the crossro

Ladykiller: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Thomas Allen Pub

Place Matters: Criminology for the Twenty-First Century

Over the last two decades, there has been increased interest in the distribution of crime and other antisocial behavior at lower levels of geography. The focus on micro geography and its contribution to the understanding and prevention of crime has been called the 'criminology of place'. It pushes scholars to examine small geographic areas within cities, often as small as addresses or street segments, for their contribution to crime. Here, the authors describe what is known about crime and place, providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive review available. Place Matters shows that the study of criminology of place should be a central focus of criminology in the twenty-first century. It creates a tremendous opportunity for advancing our understanding of crime, and for addressing it. The book brings together eighteen top scholars in criminology and place to provide comprehensive research expanding across different themes.

Politics & Social Sciences

Lum, Cynthia

Braga, Anthony A.

Ratcliffe, Jerry H.

Weisburd, David

Groff, Elizabeth R.

Yang, Sue-Ming

Eck, John E.

Telep, Cody W.

Cave, Breanne

Bowers, Kate

Bruinsma, Gerben

Hibdon, Julie

Hinkle, Joshua C.

Johnson, Shane D.

Lawton, Brian

Rengert, George

Taniguchi, Travis

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Award "Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity and nobility that soars. This is the best book, on several fronts, that I've read in a long time."-Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company During Charlotte Gill’s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, 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 clear-cuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers. In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree-planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests, which evolved over millennia into intricate, complex ecosystems. Among other topics, she also touches on the boom-and-bust history of logging and the versatility of wood, from which we have devised

Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe (David Suzuki Institute)

Professionals & Academics

Greystone Books

Eating Dirt, Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-planting Ribe

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

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