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A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker s Guide to Dancing By turns hilarious and heart rending, it s exactly the book America needs at this moment Celeste Ng Who taught Michael Jackson to dance Is that how people really walk on the moon Is it bad to be brown Are white people afraid of brown people Like 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, muchcomplicated 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 How brown is too brown Can Indians be racist What does real love between really different people look like Written 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. Best Download [ Good Talk ] Author [ Mira Jacob ] – kino-fada.fr I m supposed to be thankful for everything Thank you for publishing me Thank you for asking me to attend an event Thank you for thanking me for writing characters you could relate to despite them being Indian Thank you for saying you almost felt like they were just normal people4 stars Mira Jacob has done such an amazing job with this graphic memoir that it s hard to know what to praise first The meditation on interracial families and racism in America The mixed media artwork The wI m supposed to be thankful for everything Thank you for publishing me Thank you for asking me to attend an event Thank you for thanking me for writing characters you could relate to despite them being Indian Thank you for saying you almost felt like they were just normal people4 stars Mira Jacob has done such an amazing job with this graphic memoir that it s hard to know what to praise first The meditation on interracial families and racism in America The mixed media artwork The warm and funny dialogue between Mira and the ch...Update I m back 2nd read..physical book this time.I can t say enough about this book After I listened to the Audiobook which I thought was BRILLIANT I ended up buying the physical graphic book last week too Its AMAZING Mira Jacob outdid herself A TRIPLE THREAT author, graphic artist, speaker the storytelling of this MEMOIR, the graphics, READING her book I met Mira at a reading in Austin years ago liked her very much read her first novel, The Sleepwalker s Gu Update I m back 2nd read..physical book this time.I can t say enough about this book After I listened to the Audiobook which I thought was BRILLIANT I ended up buying the physical graphic book last week too Its AMAZING Mira Jacob outdid herself A TRIPLE THREAT author, graphic artist, speaker the storytelling of this MEMOIR, the graphics, READING her book I met Mira at a reading in Austin years ago liked her very much read her first novel, The Sleepwalker s Guide to Dancing..but with this book.she has elevated my deepest respect for her talent ten times over The very first sentence page captures your attention The Trouble began when my 6 year old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson What s obsessed Like Into Yes I m obsessed.You can t go wrong with this graphic physical book or the Audiobook As Author Celeste Ng says on the back of this book Good Talk illuminates the increasing fractured world we live in today By turns hilarious and heart rending, it plunges fearlessly into the murky gray ...GOOD TALK isn t just Mira Jacobs s personal story it also illuminates the increasingly fractured world we live in By turns hilarious and heart rending, it plunges fearlessly into the murky gray areas of race and family, of str...Gutted My heart breaks for our country and its completely unnecessary, self inflicted wounds My heart breaks for the damage we are doing to ourselves and each other This is a must read.Ever since I read Mira Jacob s 2015 Buzzfeed article about her son s obsession with Michael Jackson and the questions it raised and subsequently began following her excellent Instagram account, goodtalkthanks , I have been desperate to read Good Talk I waited impatiently for the book to finally be released, for my library to obtain a copy, for the copy to make it to my branch When it finally arrived just in time for my staycation, I was ECSTATIC My expectations couldn t have been high Ever since I read Mira Jacob s 2015 Buzzfeed article about her son s obsession with Michael Jackson and the questions it raised and subsequently began following her excellent Instagram account, goodtalkthanks , I have been desperate to read Good Talk I waited impatiently for the book to finally be released, for my library to obtain a copy, for the copy to make it to my branch When it finally arrived just in time for my staycation, I was ECSTATIC My expectations couldn t have been higher, is what I m saying Good Talk met them all.In some ways, it s surprising that Good Talk worked as well as it did Jacob is an excellent artist, but as in the excerpt I linked to , she mostly uses the same images over and o...I loved this graphic novel It s the author s story of growing up as a person of color in the United States, with a special focus on raising her young son in a post 9 11 New York City Her son has a lot of questions about race and her best attempts to answer them honestly are poignant.Jacob uses an unusual visual format for her stories She draws simple black and white portraits of herself and the main characters at certain ages and reuses those portraits repeatedly as dialogue occurs over the y I loved this graphic novel It s the author s story of growing up as a person of color in the United States, with a special focus on raising her young son in a post 9 11 New York City Her son has a lot of questions about race and her best attempts to answer them honestly are poignant.Jacob uses an unusual visual format for her stories She draws simple black and white portraits of herself and the main characters at certain ages and reuses those portraits repeatedly as dialogue occurs over the years The portraits are superimposed on photographs of where the dialog is occurring Some have ridiculed her drawings as childish and the technique as lazy, but I found it strangely affecting as the characters moved back and forth in time, frozen as snapshots of their former selves I especially loved Jacobs drawing of her six year old son, so precious with his sweet little baby teeth and his wide eyed gaze Innocence personified.Of Jacob s own perspective o...First a confession from the advance blurb Who taught Michael Jackson to dance Are white people afraid of brown people , my expectations for this book weren t high I suspected it might be another one of those feel good, politically correct books But I loved Mira Jacob s first novel, The Sleepwalker s Guide to Dancing, and on a whim, I decided to take a chance.And wow This is the real deal, raw, wrenching, funny, fearless, and honest Mira Jacob is an American of Indian descent, marri First a confession from the advance blurb Who taught Michael Jackson to dance Are white people afraid of brown people , my expectations for this book weren t high I suspected it might be another one of those feel good, politically correct books But I loved Mira Jacob s first novel, The Sleepwalker s Guide to Dancing, and on a whim, I decided to take a chance.And wow This is the real deal, raw, wrenching, funny, fearless, and honest Mira Jacob is an American of Indian descent, married to a Jewish man, and their young son, referred to here as Z, is an inquisitive boy who inherited her dark skin and her poignant need to understand the lifetime caught between beautiful dream of a diverse nation and the complicated reality of one Using her own illustrations to tell her story, Mira Jacobs walks us through pivotal moments in her back history She recalls winning an essay contest, sponsored by the DAR, as a child However, Mira wasn t quite the American the DAR envisioned in granting her the prize...Instagram Twitter FacebookPinterestI wasn t really sure what to expect with this one but I ended up liking it a lot GOOD TALK is a graphic novel memoir told in conversations The art is static, set against photographs or hyper realistic drawings, and at first this kind of felt lazy to me and I wasn t sure I liked this style, but I realized it was probably so the art wouldn t be a distraction from the text panels since that was the important stuff The conversations are most Instagram Twitter FacebookPinterestI wasn t really sure what to expect with this one but I ended up liking it a lot GOOD TALK is a graphic novel memoir told in conversations The art is static, set against photographs or hyper realistic drawings, and at first this kind of felt lazy to me and I wasn t sure I liked this style, but I realized it was probably so the art wouldn t be a distraction from the text panels since that was the important stuff The conversations are mostly between Mira and her young son, Z Z has lots of questions, especially about what it means to be biracial and brown in a post 9 11, post Trump political climate, where so many people in the United States still have biases.One of the things I ended up loving about this book is the raw honesty Mira s dating life shines light on a lot of the difficulties that women of color face in the dating world, especially women who are also LGB...I wasn t expecting to enjoy this graphic novel as much as I did But boy did this book pack an unexpected punch Written in conversation style, it s a completely unique and interesting perspective on race and immigration during this current crazy political climate and the difficult questions that only a young kid knows how to ask It makes you mad that these conversations are even necessary But I enjoyed the interactions between Mira and her son There is humour in between the seriousness of th I wasn t expecting to enjoy this graphic novel as much as I did But boy did this book pack an unexpected punch Written in conversation style, it s a completely unique and interesting perspective on race and immigration during this current crazy political climate and the difficult questions that only a young kid knows how to ask It makes you mad that these conversations are even necessary But I enjoyed the interactions between Mira and her son There is humour in between the seriousness of the discuss...It is amazing to me how much Jacob fits into this book, how much it manages to contain, and how much it says not just about Jacob herself but about the present moment we live in This is not just a book about raising a precocious biracial child in a world that treats his two parents very differently, that is just an entry point for Jacob to examine all the different parts of her life where these difficult issues have come up The parental anxiety factor here is high and I felt it really deeply It is amazing to me how much Jacob fits into this book, how much it manages to contain, and how much it says not just about Jacob herself but about the present moment we live in This is not just a book about raising a precocious biracial child in a world that treats his two parents very differently, that is just an entry point for Jacob to examine all the different parts of her life where these difficult issues have come up The parental anxiety factor here is high and I felt it really deeply My kids are close to the age of Jacob s son, and while they don t have his particular precocious awareness of the world, even if your child doesn t ask you these questions directly you still have to think about how to have conversations with your kids about things your parents may have never talked about with you Jaco...

Good Talk
  • 25 May 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 400 pages
  • Mira Jacob
  • Good Talk