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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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