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  • Brown Baby

  • A Memoir of Race, Family and Home
  • Written by: Nikesh Shukla
  • Narrated by: Himesh Patel
  • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
  • 2.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Brown Baby

Written by: Nikesh Shukla
Narrated by: Himesh Patel
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Publisher's Summary

How do you find hope and even joy in a world that is racist, 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 explores themes of racism, feminism, parenting and our shifting ideas of home. This memoir, by turns heart-wrenching, 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.

This audiobook contains exclusive extracts from the Brown Baby podcast, including interviews with guests such as Nadiya Hussein, Jay Sean and Kit de Waal. 
©2020 Nikesh Shukla (P)2020 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd
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"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)

"A wise and wonderful book from the hugely talented Nikesh Shukla. Written for his daughters, inspired by his mother whom they never got to meet, this love letter to his brown babies encompasses fatherhood, feminism, racial politics, growing up and being a grown up, with tenderness, depth and humour." (Meera Syal)

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Below average story

I struggled to finish book. Think twice before you read this book. Not happy

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