Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob | Published March 26th 2019 by One World | Goodreads
✅ REVIEW
Daring, original, funny, and charming. I loved this graphic memoir which depicts conversations between the author and her six-year old son as well as interactions with her family while she was growing up.
It explores the subjects of identity, colorism between the same ethnic group, racism, family, and politics in a relatable and humorous way.
This book was a treat, I loved it and highly, VERY highly recommend it.
✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
“A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“Who taught Michael Jackson to dance?”
“Is that how people really walk on the moon?”
“Is it bad to be brown?”
“Are white people afraid of brown people?”
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.
“How brown is too brown?”
“Can Indians be racist?”
“What does real love between really different people look like?”
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.”
✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT
Loan from Miami-Dade’s Library Overdrive, eBook