Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, (Paperback)

from bell7

Mira Jacobs' memoir starts with difficult conversations she has with her six-year-old son about race. Sometimes what she's trying to say gets interrupted by a knock-knock joke, and other days he asks her hard questions such as is his white father afraid of them. In between chapters of the almost-...

from LibrarianRyan

OMG! I now know why everyone was talking about this book and it was up on so many “best of” lists. It deserves to be there. Mira takes the reader on a journey through her life. A journey of being East Indian, a dark East Indian, in a world that prefers lighter skin. However, we don't just see her...

from streamsong

Author Mira Jacob has written a stunning graphic novel about living as an Indian American in the US, and struggling to explain racism to her mixed race son. Her son asks straightforward questions as children will do – in the vein of why the emperor has no clothes. The questions themselves and the...

from larryerick

"Guilty Pleasure - something, such as a movie, television program, or piece of music, that one enjoys despite feeling that it is not generally held in high regard." I've always thought that there's a certain glow within the individual that has a "guilty pleasure" that goes beyond just an everyday...

from lycomayflower

Jacob's graphic memoir, focusing on race and the conversations she's had with her biracial son. Insightful, moving, thought-provoking--and the art is fascinating. It's comprised mostly of drawings of all the figures in the memoir (Jacob, her husband, her son, et cetera) set against family photogr...