Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Memoirs

GOOD TALK

Mira Jacob

A Memoir in Conversations

A graphic memoir by Mira Jacob.

Inspired by a recent Buzzfeed piece by Mira Jacob that went viral, the author uses an ingenious visual style, through her own drawings, to portray a series of conversations on race, sex, love and family. These are the highly personal interactions -earnest, acrid, often moving and above all hilarious- that have formed her life.

Those conversations over the course of her life are strikingly brought to life in the pages of GOOD TALK. Mira's original pop art style is both simple and effective; the perfect backdrop to the conversations that fill these pages. This is a deeply relatable memoir filled with humor, wisdom and vulnerability. It's also a love letter to the art of conversation, and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult conversations, often with people we love the most.

We meet not just her precocious son Z, but also her husband Jed, her Trump-supporting in-laws, and her own irreverent immigrant parents whose arranged marriage forms an interesting counterpoint to her life as a modern woman in New York City.

In previous lives, Mira Jacob was an editor at various websites, including Yahoo! Shine, Babble.com, and Lime.com. Before that, she was an MFA student at the New School for Social Research, a writer for VH-1's Pop-Up Video, the author of Kenneth Cole's Footnotes and Dan Savage's research monkey. She is also the cofounder of the Pete's Reading Series in Brooklyn, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, filmmaker Jed Rothstein, and her son. Mira Jacob's 2014 debut novel THE SLEEPWALKER'S GUIDE TO DANCING was named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews, and The Millions.

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Book Published 2019-03-26 by One World
Book Published 2019-03-26 by One World

Comments

GOOD TALK was chosen as one of the "Most Anticipated Books of 2019" by Vulture, Buzzfeed, The Millions and Boston.com

Inverview with Mira Jacob: What It's Like Raising a Jewish-Indian Kid in Trump's America Read more...

.emphasizes the complexities of being part of an interracial family and the struggles of parenting in the present moment.

An important read.

TV rights sold to Peter Berg and Michael Lombardo's Film 44 for them to produce a half-hour comedy series, with Mira attached to pen the series adaptation and our very own author Eddie Huang (Fresh Off The Boat) executive producing! Read more...

UK: Bloomsbury

GOOD TALK isn't just Mira Jacob's personal story: it also illuminates the increasingly fractured world we live in. By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it plunges fearlessly into the murky gray areas of race and family, of struggling to find common ground, of trying to talk to our children and help them make sense of it all. It's exactly the book America needs at this moment.

More To Come 358: Mira Jacob Interview Read more...

Good Talk begins with a child's innocent questions about race and evolves into an honest, direct, and heartbreakingly funny examination of the challenges faced by a mother attempting to decipher the complex identity politics that define America today. As a brown-skinned woman married to a Jewish man and the mother of a biracial child, I experienced this book on multiple levels: It broke my heart and made me laugh a helluva lot; in the end, it also forced me to ponder whether I have successfully provided the answers necessary to arm my own children against racism in America.

Breezy but poignant.[Mira] employs pages of narrative prose sparingly but hauntingly. The "talks" Jacob relates are painful, often hilarious, and sometimes absurd, but her memoir makes a fierce case for continuing to have them. Read more...

Vibrant, inventive, and vulnerable, Mira Jacob's graphic memoir Good Talk addresses head-on the complexities of being fully American while also being fully Jewish, fully Indian, fully mixed, fully whatever in the era of Trump.Good Talk attempts to answer, with humor and heart, some of the most difficult questions of all.

A beautiful and eye opening account of what it means to mother a brown boy, what it means to live in this country post 9-11, as a person of color, as a woman, as an artist. In Jacob's brilliant hands, we are gifted with a narrative that is sometimes hysterical, always honest and ultimately healing.

chosen as one of 17 Must Read books by women of color Read more...