Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
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 SLEEPWALKER'S GUIDE TO DANCING.
"How brown is too brown?"
"Can Indians be racist?"
"What does real love between really different people look like?"
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 elections spread from the media into his own family, they become so 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.
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.
"Jacob's earnest recollections are often heartbreaking, but also infused with levity and humor. What stands out most is the fierce compassion with which she parses that complexities of family and love." --TIME Magazine
"GOOD TALK uses a masterful mix of pictures and words to speak on life's most uncomfortable conversations." --io9
"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 best-selling author of HEAVY
Named one of the ten Best Books of the Year by Chicago Tribune, The New York Public Library, and Publisher's Weekly
One of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, TIME Magazine, Buzzfeed, Esquire, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews
Longlisted for the Pen/Open Book Award
Target age group 15 and up
"How brown is too brown?"
"Can Indians be racist?"
"What does real love between really different people look like?"
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 elections spread from the media into his own family, they become so 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.
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.
"Jacob's earnest recollections are often heartbreaking, but also infused with levity and humor. What stands out most is the fierce compassion with which she parses that complexities of family and love." --TIME Magazine
"GOOD TALK uses a masterful mix of pictures and words to speak on life's most uncomfortable conversations." --io9
"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 best-selling author of HEAVY
Named one of the ten Best Books of the Year by Chicago Tribune, The New York Public Library, and Publisher's Weekly
One of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, TIME Magazine, Buzzfeed, Esquire, Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews
Longlisted for the Pen/Open Book Award
Target age group 15 and up
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CategoryAdult Nonfiction
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Age Group15 and UP
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Grade Level9+
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LanguageEnglish
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BindingHardcover
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Theme 1Biography & Autobiography
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Theme 2Graphic Novels
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Detailed (BISAC) Subject/ThemePersonal Memoirs
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Awards
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AuthorJacob, Mira
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Deweyb
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PublisherRandom House, Inc.
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Publication Date3/26/2019
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Pages368
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Dimensions1.4 H × 8.1 L × 6.2 W
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Case Qty16
