https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/23/shame-on-me-tessa-mcwatt-review

Intimate storytelling brings alive the Guyanese-born Canadian author’s eloquent memoir of identity

An eight-year-old girl in a Toronto classroom in 1968 hears the teacher ask for a definition of “negro”. The girl has no idea what the word means. A boy points to her. The teacher, embarrassed, says no, “Tessa is something else”. She turns to the little girl: “What are you, Tessa?”

Ten-year-old Tessa stands before a mirror with her brother and sister; they are measuring noses. Her sister’s nose is the smallest, the most “Caucasian”. Giggling furiously, Tessa and her brother battle it out for second place.