A review by amhey
Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista Khakpour

4.0

I had to get used to her style of writing, but I appreciated what she said. There were some essays I liked more than others, especially her last one. She talked about how her illness and whiteness played together, how the people she depended on couldn’t accept her identity and put words into her mouth. Khakpour wrote about how much others expected of her as an Iranian-American and how frustrating it was for her when white people erased her brownness.