Good Talk by Mira Jacob is a critically acclaimed graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the cultural biases that often divide us. The book is a love letter to the author's son about the value of conversation, and the promise that difficult discussions can foster unity.
Print copies of Good Talk are available for checkout at Longview Library, and digital copies are available in OverDrive (link below):
Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir, Good Talk, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a best book of the year by Time, Esquire, Publisher's Weekly, and Library Journal.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Electric Literature, Tin House, Literary Hub, Guernica, Vogue, and the Telegraph. She is currently the visiting professor at MFA Creative Writing program at The New School, and a founding faculty member of the MFA Program at Randolph College.
She is the co-founder of Pete's Reading Series in Brooklyn, where she spent 13 years bringing literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to Williamsburg.
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, documentary filmmaker Jed Rothstein, and their son.
Source: www.MiraJacob.com
