A review by goldandsalt
Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion by Nishta J. Mehra

5.0

Ah, now this is the kind of parenting/family book I've been looking for. It smashes through a lot of the parenting heteronormativity that raises my hackles, but smashes through it with a lot of love and thoughtfulness. Mehta's stories provide one possible blueprint for an adoptive family, and it's one that feels closer to possible for me than anything else I've ever read. If there was more parenting literature like this, maybe I wouldn't feel so ambivalent about the whole thing.