Brown Baby
A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
-
-
4.5 • 2 Ratings
-
-
- £4.99
Publisher Description
'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent times.' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other
How do you find hope and even joy in a world that is prejudiced, sexist and facing climate crisis? How do you prepare your children for it, but also fill them with all the boundlessness and eccentricity that they deserve and that life has to offer?
In Brown Baby, Nikesh Shukla, author of the bestselling The Good Immigrant, explores themes of sexism, feminism, parenting and our shifting ideas of home. This memoir, by turns heartwrenching, hilariously funny and intensely relatable, is dedicated to the author’s two young daughters, and serves as an act of remembrance to the grandmother they never had a chance to meet. Through love, grief, food and fatherhood, Shukla shows how it’s possible to believe in hope.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This is a powerful, bracingly honest memoir from the author of The Good Immigrant that explores the realities of raising two young children in a modern world still ravaged by racism. It’s also beautiful, self-deprecating and very funny. Nikesh Shukla starts the book in in heartbreaking-but-gorgeous fashion—documenting the liberating feelings of renewal his daughters’ arrival brought in the wake of his mother’s passing. This gives way to a variety of scenarios, obstacles and decisions Shukla must navigate as parents of British-Indian children, not to mention compelling insights into his own struggles with food.
