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Online Book Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations FREE DOWNLOADOnline Book Good Talk:A Memoir inConversations FREEDOWNLOADDescriptionJacob's sophomore effort (after Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing) is a graphic memoir about race and family,set against the backdrop of the 2016 election and told through a series of conversations. At first, the bookriffs off questions that Jacob's biracial six-year-old son, Z, asks. Some queries are simple: 'Who is better,Michael Jackson or Michael Jordan?' Others reflect the child's internalization of messages from media andrequire more complex answers: 'Is it bad to be brown?' Z's inquiries prompt memories that push Jacob to diginto her own childhood and behaviors through interactions with her immigrant parents and extended familyin India. The author and her husband, Jed, talk about his white male privilege as a Jewish man and hisfamily's conservative politics. Interactions with Jacob's friends allow her to process out loud some of thediscussions described in previous scenes. The narrative spans generations, drawing parallels between Jacoband her son but also highlighting the lack of social progress. Aided by the skillful story structure, Jacob's noholds-barredvulnerability compels reflection and empathy. The unique art style combines photographicbackgrounds with illustrations of characters framed in white, like paper cutouts. Characters smartly break thefourth wall, looking directly at readers and inviting them into the narrative. Scenes of Jacob's pastrelationships with men and women depict nudity but nothing explicit. VERDICT A powerful, multilayeredexploration of racial identity development and complicated family dynamics. Timely and necessary.—AlecChunn, Eugene Public Library, OR Read more “[I] loved it so so much. So poignant, honest, funny,powerful, and timely, and its themes build in a way that by the end is truly artistically transcendent.―—Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Prep and Eligible“Among its manyvirtues, Mira Jacobâ€s graphic memoir, Good Talk, helps us think through this term [‘person ofcolorâ€] with grace and disarming wit. The book lives up to its title, and reading these searching,often hilarious tête-à -têtes is as effortless as eavesdropping on a crosstown bus. . . . The mediumÂis part of the magic. . . . The old comic-book alchemy of words and pictures opens up new possibilities offeeling. . . . The people are black and white—except, of course, theyâ€re not.―—Ed Park, The NewYork Times Book Review“Good Talk addresses head-on the complexities of being fully Americanwhile also being fully Jewish, fully Indian, fully mixed, fully whatever in the era of Trump. . . . GoodTalk attempts to answer, with humor and heart, some of the most difficult questions of all.―—Bustle“[A] showstopping memoir about race in America . . . by turns funny, philosophical, cautious, andheartbreaking . . . Particularly moving are the chapters in which Jacob explores how even those close to herretain closed-minded and culturally defined prejudices. . . . The memoir works well visually, with strikingpen-and-ink drawings . . . collaged onto vibrant found photographs and illustrated backgrounds. . . . Toldwith immense bravery and candor, this book will make readers hunger for more of Jacobâ€swisdom and light.―—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Breezy but poignant . . . [Mira Jacob]employs pages of narrative prose sparingly but hauntingly. . . . The ‘talks†Jacob relates are painful,
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