"Brown Girl Chromatography is a wise manual of immigrant coming of age—a journey of ancestry and longing, an embrace of the past and a love song to the future. Anuradha Bhowmik speaks for all the brown girls who ‘couldn't have/crushes in fourth grade,’ all of us who weren’t ‘white women/wearing lingerie in the glossy Macy’s ad.’ The speaker’s journey through the minefield of popular culture, family responsibility, and maturation into an unmapped womanhood is handled with deft precision."
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