num_pages: 204
description: Twenty-eight-year-old Nao Brown whos hafu (half Japanese half English) is not well. Shes suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and fighting violent urges to harm other people. But thats not who she really wants to be. Nao has dreams. She wants to quiet her unruly mind; she wants to get her design and illustration career off the ground; and she wants to find love perfect love. Naos life continues to seesaw. Her boyfriend dumps her; a toy deal falls through. But she also meets Gregory an interesting washing-machine repairman and Ray an art teacher at the Buddhist Center. She begins to draw and meditate to ease her mind and open her heartand in doing so comes to a big realization: Life isnt black-and-white after all . . . its much more like brown.
language: English
title: The Nao of Brown
publisher: Harry N. Abrams