![]() It’s Not Easy Being BrownĪ central theme of her book is the struggle to earn acceptance while growing up in American towns where brown girls are unusual. World of Wonders takes readers not only to her job, but also colleges in Ohio and Wisconsin, childhood homes in Phoenix where her father once worked as a NICU respiratory therapist, Iowa, western New York, on the grounds of Larned State Hospital in Kansas where her mother practiced psychiatry, and places she visited overseas as a youngster then as an adult, including her father’s native Kerala in southwestern India and mother’s homeland of northern Philippines. The tenure committee and self-satisfied faculty member Aimee references are inside the English and MFA creative writing program at the University of Mississippi. Wide and thin, the axolotl’s smile runs from one end of the amphibian’s face to the other, curving at each end ever so gently upward.” But it’s as if he doesn’t hear you or he does and doesn’t care, chuckling to himself as he shuffles across the icy parking lot, hands jammed into his pockets. “An axolotl can help you smile as an adult even if someone on your tenure committee puts his palms together as if in prayer every time he sees you off-campus, and does a quick, short bow, and calls out, Namaste! Even though you’ve told him several times already that you actually attend a Methodist church. ![]()
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