{"product_id":"good-talk-isbn-9780399589065","title":"Good Talk","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003cb\u003e•\u003c\/b\u003e A “beautiful and eye-opening” (Jacqueline Woodson), “hilarious and heart-rending” (Celeste Ng) graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families,  \u003cb\u003eand the realities that divide us\u003c\/b\u003e, from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune,\u003c\/i\u003e The New York Public Library, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003cb\u003e• \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, Time, BuzzFeed, Esquire, Literary Journal, Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eHow brown is too brown?\u003ci\u003e”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eCan Indians be racist?\u003ci\u003e”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eWhat does real love between really different people look like?\u003ci\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c\/i\u003e. 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\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/OPEN BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGood Talk\u003c\/i\u003e uses a masterful mix of pictures and words to speak on life’s most uncomfortable conversations.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eio9\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.”\u003cb\u003e—Kiese Laymon, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[I]  loved it so so much. So poignant, honest, funny, powerful, and timely,  and its themes build in a way that by the end is truly artistically  transcendent.”\u003cb\u003e—Curtis Sittenfeld, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePrep \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEligible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Among its many virtues, Mira Jacob’s graphic memoir, \u003ci\u003eGood Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, helps us think through this term [‘person of color’] with grace and disarming wit. The book lives up to its title, and reading these searching, often hilarious tête-à-têtes is as effortless as eavesdropping on a crosstown bus. . . . The medium is part of the magic. . . . The old comic-book alchemy of words and pictures opens up new possibilities of feeling. . . . The people are black and white—except, of course, they’re not.”\u003cb\u003e—Ed Park, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGood Talk\u003c\/i\u003e addresses head-on the complexities of being fully American while also being fully Jewish, fully Indian, fully mixed, fully \u003ci\u003ewhatever\u003c\/i\u003e in the era of Trump. . . . \u003ci\u003eGood Talk \u003c\/i\u003eattempts to answer, with humor and heart, some of the most difficult questions of all.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] showstopping memoir about race in America . . . by turns funny, philosophical, cautious, and heartbreaking . . . Particularly moving are the chapters in which Jacob explores how even those close to her retain closed-minded and culturally defined prejudices. . . . The memoir works well visually, with striking pen-and-ink drawings . . . collaged onto vibrant found photographs and illustrated backgrounds. . . . Told with immense bravery and candor, this book will make readers hunger for more of Jacob’s wisdom and light.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Breezy but poignant . . . [Mira Jacob] employs pages of narrative prose sparingly but hauntingly. . . . The ‘talks’ Jacob relates are painful, often hilarious, and sometimes absurd, but her memoir makes a fierce case for continuing to have them.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—Jacqueline Woodson, \u003cb\u003eNational Book Award–winning \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eGood Talk\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a child’s innocent questions about race and evolves into an honest, direct, and heartbreakingly funny journey. As a brown-skinned woman married to a Jewish man and the mother of a biracial child, I experienced this book on multiple levels: 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.”\u003cb\u003e—Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of \u003ci\u003eSweat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMira Jacob \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the critically acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eThe Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e. Her recent work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review, Vogue, Glamour, Tin House, Electric Literature \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in Brooklyn.The New York Times Book Review   100 Notable Books   2019; National bestseller","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299707113701,"sku":"NP9780399589065","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780399589065.jpg?v=1767728374","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/good-talk-isbn-9780399589065","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}