“A BREEZY BUT POIGNANT GRAPHIC MEMOIR THAT TAKES ON RACISM, LOVE, AND THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP..."
By Mira Jacob
WHAT IS GOOD TALK ABOUT?
Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first, they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love.
CAN INDIANS BE RACIST?
IS IT BAD TO BE BROWN?
“VIRANT, INVENTIVE, AND VULNERABLE”
MIRA JACOB’S GRAPHIC MEMOIR GOOD TALK ADDRESSES HEAD-ON THE COMPLEXITIES OF BEING FULL AMERICAN WHILE ALSO BEING FULLY JEWISH, FULLY INDIAN, FULLY MIXED, FULLY WHATEVER IN THE ERA OF TRUMP [AND] ATTEMPTS TO ANSWER, WITH HUMOR AND HEART, SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT QUESTIONS OF ALL.”
––BUSTLE
“MIRA JACOB JUST MADE ME TOSS EVERYTHING I THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE IN A BOOK-AS-ART-OBJECT INTO THE GARBAGE. HER NEW BOOK CHANGES EVERYTHING.”
––KIESE LAYMON, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HEAVY
WHAT MAKES THE BOOK SO INTERESTING?
MIRA JACOB IS THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR OF GOOD TALK: A MEMOIR IN CONVERSATIONS. HER CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NOVEL, THE SLEEPWALKER’S GUIDE TO DANCING, WAS A BARNES &NOBLE DISCOVER NEW WRITERS PICK, SHORTLISTED FOR INDIA’S TATA FIRST LITERATURE AWARD, AND LONGLISTED FOR THE BROOKLYN LITERARY EAGLES PRIZE. IT WAS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2014 BY KIRKUS REVIEWS, THE BOSTON GLOBE, GOODREADS, BUSTLE, AND THE MILLIONS.
WHO IS MIRA JACOB?
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