Sunny Dhillon's "Journalism While Brown and When to Walk Away" revealed the struggles journalists of colour can face in an industry conditioned to downplay racism, especially as it deploys it. Dhillon's essay on powerlessness, on who has a voice and who is denied, quickly went viral.

In this sharply funny memoir, shaped as a series of letters to his daughter, Dhillon reclaims his voice and traces his path as a Brown Sikh. From his earliest memories, his experience of being Canadian was rooted in race. As a child, he'd often found himself confused by what he should do when the fact he was "different" was raised. His reaction again and again was to hide - until he finally realized he no longer felt the need. With warmth, honesty and lots of humour, Dhillon shares his journey so his daughter won't have to stumble through the lessons he took too far long to learn.