Real American is the story of Julie’s journey from self-loathing to self-love as a Black and biracial woman living in predominantly white spaces. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows how microaggressions, discrimination, and outright racism can puncture a person’s inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. In sharing her path to self-acceptance, Julie also expresses the healing power of community in overcoming the hurtful isolation of being incessantly considered “the other.”