Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

ISBN: 0399589066

Author: Jacob, Mira

Condition: Used

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A beautiful and eye-opening (Jacqueline Woodson), hilarious and heart-rending (Celeste Ng) graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers Guide to Dancing.ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, BuzzFeed, Esquire, Literary Journal, Kirkus ReviewsHow brown is too brown?Can Indians be racist?What does real love between really different people look like?Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacobs 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 shes gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love.Written with humor and vulnerability, this deeply relatable graphic memoir is a love letter to the art of conversation-and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARDJacobs earnest recollections are often heartbreaking, but also infused with levity and humor. What stands out most is the fierce compassion with which she parses the complexities of family and love.-TimeGood Talk uses a masterful mix of pictures and words to speak on lifes most uncomfortable conversations.-io9Mira 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