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Good Talk
- Author
- Mira Jacob
- Narrator
- Mira Jacob
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 13 June 2019
- Run Time
- 2 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous / Funny stories, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction, Migration, immigration and emigration, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: politics / economics
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What to expect
'By turns hilarious and heart-rending. Plunges fearlessly into the murky grey areas of race and family, of struggling to find common ground, of trying to talk to our children and help them make sense of it all' Celeste Ng
'Does Donald Trump hate Muslims?'
'Is that how people really walk on the moon?'
'Is it bad to be brown?'
'Are white people afraid of brown people?'
Inspired by her viral BuzzFeed piece ‘37 Difficult Questions from My Mixed-Raced Son’, Mira Jacob responds to: her six-year-old, Zakir, who asks if the new president hates brown boys like him; uncomfortable relationship advice from her parents, who came to the United States from India one month into their arranged marriage; and increasingly fraught exchanges with her Trump-supporting in-laws. Jacob also investigates her own past, including how it felt to be a brown-skinned New Yorker on 9/11. As earnest and moving as they are laugh-out-loud funny, these are the stories that have shaped one life, but will resonate with many others.
Critics Review
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Good Talk isn’t just Mira Jacob'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 grey areas of race and family, of struggling to find common ground, of trying to talk to our children and help them make sense of it all
Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
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Searching, often hilarious … [T]he medium is part of the magic of Good Talk. The old comic-book alchemy of words and pictures opens up new possibilities of feeling
New York Times Book Review
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[A] moving and very funny graphic novel that explores identity, race, sexuality and love
Esquire
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[A] breezy but poignant graphic memoir that takes on racism, love and the election of President Trump ... The collage effect creates an odd, immediate intimacy ... The ‘talks’ Jacob relates are painful, often hilarious, and sometimes absurd, but her memoir makes a fierce case for continuing to have them
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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A beautiful and eye-opening account of what it means to mother a brown boy and what it means to live in this country post–9/11, as a person of color, as a woman, as an artist ... In Jacob’s brilliant hands, we are gifted with a narrative that is sometimes hysterically funny, always honest, and ultimately healing
Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author of Another Brooklyn
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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
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Good Talk begins with a child’s innocent questions about race and evolves into an honest, direct and heartbreakingly funny journey ... It broke my heart and made me laugh a helluva lot, but, in the end, it also forced me to ponder whether I have successfully provided the answers necessary to arm my own children against racism in America
Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Sweat
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Jacob’s earnest recollections are often heartbreaking, but also infused with levity and humor. What stands out the most is the fierce compassion with which she parses the complexities of family and love. Jacob finds hope in the answers that come from asking hard questions
Time Magazine
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Insightful … Good Talk’s visuals are simple but powerful, offering a witty and empathetic window into how to talk about – and live in – life’s complexities
Entertainment Weekly
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Details
- Author
- Mira Jacob
- Narrator
- Mira Jacob
- Duration
- 2 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 June 2019
- ISBN
- 9781526616135
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous / Funny stories, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction, Migration, immigration and emigration, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: politics / economics
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Good Talk written and read by Mira Jacob.'By turns hilarious and heart-rending. Plunges fearlessly into the murky grey areas of race and family, of struggling to find common ground, of trying to talk to our children and help them make sense of it all' Celeste Ng'Does Donald Trump hate Muslims?''Is that how people really walk on the moon?''Is it bad to be brown?''Are white people afraid of brown people?'Inspired by her viral BuzzFeed piece ‘37 Difficult Questions from My Mixed-Raced Son’, Mira Jacob responds to: her six-year-old, Zakir, who asks if the new president hates brown boys like him; uncomfortable relationship advice from her parents, who came to the United States from India one month into their arranged marriage; and increasingly fraught exchanges with her Trump-supporting in-laws. Jacob also investigates her own past, including how it felt to be a brown-skinned New Yorker on 9/11. As earnest and moving as they are laugh-out-loud funny, these are the stories that have shaped one life, but will resonate with many others.
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