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Longview Common Read Project

The purpose of this guide is to share the objectives and guidelines for MCC-Longview's Common Read Program, and also its book selections and upcoming events.

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Good Talk by Mira Jacob is a critically acclaimed graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us. Written with humor and vulnerability, this deeply relatable book is a love letter to the art of conversation, and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions.

Book Availability

Print copies of Good Talk are available for checkout at Longview Library, and digital copies are available in OverDrive (link below):

Author Information: Mira Jacob

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