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Description
Jacob'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 book riffs 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 and require more complex answers: 'Is it bad to be
brown?' Z's inquiries prompt memories that push Jacob to dig into her own childhood and
behaviors through interactions with her immigrant parents and extended family in India. The author
and her husband, Jed, talk about his white male privilege as a Jewish man and his family's
conservative politics. Interactions with Jacob's friends allow her to process out loud some of the
discussions described in previous scenes. The narrative spans generations, drawing parallels
between Jacob and her son but also highlighting the lack of social progress. Aided by the skillful
story structure, Jacob's no-holds-barred vulnerability compels reflection and empathy. The unique
art style combines photographic backgrounds with illustrations of characters framed in white, like
paper cutouts. Characters smartly break the fourth wall, looking directly at readers and inviting
them into the narrative. Scenes of Jacob's past relationships with men and women depict nudity
but nothing explicit. VERDICT A powerful, multilayered exploration of racial identity development
and complicated family dynamics. Timely and necessary.—Alec Chunn, 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 many virtues, Mira
Jacobâ€s graphic memoir, Good Talk, helps us think through this term [‘person of
colorâ€] with grace and disarming wit. The book lives up to its title, and reading theseÂ
searching, often hilarious tête-à -têtes is as effortless as eavesdropping on a crosstown bus.
. . . The medium is part of the magic. . . . The old comic-book alchemy of words and pictures
opens up new possibilities of feeling. . . . The people are black and white—except, of course,
theyâ€re not.―—Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review“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.―—Bustle“[A] showstopping memoirÂ
about race in America . . . by turns funny, philosophical, cautious, and heartbreaking . . .
Particularly moving are the chapters in which Jacob explores how even those close to her retain
closed-minded and culturally defined prejudices. . . . The memoir works well visually, with striking

pen-and-ink drawings . . . collaged onto vibrant found photographs and illustrated backgrounds. . .
. Told with immense bravery and candor, this book will make readers hunger for more of
Jacobâ€s wisdom and light.―—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Breezy but poignant .
. . [Mira Jacob] employs pages of narrative prose sparingly but hauntingly. . . . The ‘talksâ€
Jacob relates are painful, often hilarious, and sometimes absurd, but her memoir makes a fierce
case for continuing to have them.―—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A beautiful and
eye-opening account of what it means to mother a brown boy and what it means to live in this
country post–9/11, as a person of color, as a woman, as an artist . . . In Jacobâ€s brilliant
hands, we are gifted with a narrative that is sometimes hysterically funny, always honest, and
ultimately healing.―—Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author ofÂ
Another Brooklyn “Good Talk begins with a childâ€s innocent questions about race and
evolves into an honest, direct, and heartbreakingly funny journey. 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, but, 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.―—Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Sweat
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