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Tina Chang and Mira Jacob join the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to celebrate the paperback releases of their books Hybrida and Good Talk. Following a reading from their work, they will speak to the intersections of their experiences and creative practices, discussing race, motherhood, and hybrid storytelling structures.

Author Mira Jacob joins us for a reading and discussion of her 2019 graphic novel Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. October 7, 2019.

This event will be live-streamed on Zoom, and CART captions will be available. The first 100 RSVPs will receive access to the Zoom link via email. The event will also be live streamed on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop YouTube page for the greater public.

Tina Chang, Brooklyn Poet Laureate, is the author of Half-Lit Houses, Of Gods & Strangers, and Hybrida (W.W. Norton, 2019). She is also co-editor of the Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Her poems have been published in journals such as American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, and Ploughshares. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, among others. Hybrida was named one of the best books of 2019 by NPR, Publisher’s Weekly, Lit Hub,and was the Paris Review’s Contributor’s Favorite Book of 2019. She is the Director of Creative Writing at Binghamton University.

Good Talk Mira Jacob Summary

Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize, and translated into seven languages. Her writing and drawings have appeared in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Tin House, Literary Hub, Guernica, and Vogue, and she has a drawn column on Shondaland. She teaches at The New School, and she is a founding faculty member of the MFA Program at Randolph College. She lives in Brooklyn.

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“Mira Jacob just made me toss everything I thought was possible in a book as art object in the garbage. Her new book changes everything.” —Kiese Laymon, New York Times bestselling author of Heavy “ Good Talk illuminates the increasingly fractured world we live in. Good Talk’s subtitle is A Memoir in Conversations, and many of the talks in the book center on Jacob trying to answer the questions of her incessantly inquisitive son Z. He asks pointed.

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I have been having a fantastic reading month! I’ve read many 5 star reads and I am so excited to start the year off with that energy! My latest favorite has to be GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. It is a memoir told in graphic novel form and it is so.good. It had been on my list for a while and after feeling really on edge due to the insurrection that occured at the US Capitol, I knew it was time to finally read this book.

I don’t regret a moment I spent with it! I read it in one sitting and highly recommend it, especially to parents who have been faced with explaining the last four years of such a hateful administration to their children. As a bonus, there are a lot of New York-y elements that made this city gal very happy.

Synopsis: “'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, 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.
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.” —From the publisher

What I Liked:

1. The Format—I love graphic novels and always forget how much I do. The style makes it so accessible and intimate for the reader. You fly through it and it provides this sense of urgency that makes you want to keep flipping the page.

2. The Questions It Provoked—As someone who lived in the liberal bubble of NYC, I was one of those white people who was “shocked and saddened” by the 2016 election. The last four years have been a huge lesson for me in waking up to the injustices that have been apart of America since it’s foundation. Jacob helped verbalize a lot of the things I’ve been struggling to vocalize for the last four years.

3. Z—Children keep us honest and accountable. I loved getting to know Z, the world his parents wanted for him, and that his questions and concerns were honestly addressed by his parents. Some parts made me incredibly sad, but it was because it was so real.

What Didn’t Work:

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1. Nothing—Read this book, especially if you’ve experienced strained family relationships in the last four years or you, like me, was one of those shocked white people who just “couldn’t understand” how this happened.

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TW/CW: Racism, racial slurs, 9/11, talk of violence, immigration, strained familial relationships, familial gaslighting, colorism

Good Talk Mira Jacob Chapter Summary

Character Authenticity: N/A (memoir) Steam Rating: N/A Overall Rating: 5/5