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Mindy, God, and Things I’m Not Supposed to Say is a new picture of faith from a half-Japanese suburban mother with a suicidal, bulimic, promiscuous past and present mystical spirituality that is honest, profane and countercultural. With humor and an open heart, this hybrid memoir delves into...

As a woman used to traveling and living the high life in Bangkok, Leanne Shirtliffe recognized the constant fodder for humor while pregnant with twins in Asia's sin city. But in spite of deep-fried bug cuisine and nurses who cover newborn bassinets with plastic wrap, Shirtliffe manages to keep her babies alive for a year with help from a Coca-Cola deliveryman, several waitresses, and a bra factory. Then she and her husband return home to the isolation of North American suburbia.

At long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American “friends.” “A balm for tongues bitten and comments swallowed . . . A bitingly humorous compendium of the absurd subtle racism of the American workplace.” —Kirkus...