{"product_id":"jacob-mira-good-talk-pb","title":"Jacob, Mira: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne World, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 24, 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A \"beautiful and eye-opening\" (Jacqueline Woodson), \"hilarious and heart-rending\" (Celeste Ng) graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, BuzzFeed, Esquire, Literary Journal, Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"How brown is too brown?\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Can Indians be racist?\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"What does real love between really different people look like?\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWritten with humor and vulnerability, this deeply relatable graphic memoir is a love letter to the art of conversation--and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/OPEN BOOK AWARD\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Jacob's earnest recollections are often heartbreaking, but also infused with levity and humor. What stands out most is the fierce compassion with which she parses the complexities of family and love.\" --Time\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\" Good Talk uses a masterful mix of pictures and words to speak on life's most uncomfortable conversations.\" --io9\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Mira Jacob just made me toss everything I thought was possible in a book-as-art-object into the garbage. Her new book changes everything.\" --Kiese Laymon, New York Times bestselling author of Heavy\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40534857547799,"sku":"9780399589065","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/9409359-L.jpg?v=1679776511","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/jacob-mira-good-talk-pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}