Mira Jacob’s 2018 graphic memoir “Good Talk” has been lauded across multiple ‘Best Of’ lists over the past few years and this might be the perfect title to try if you haven’t yet found your footing with graphic novels. Framed as a series of conversations between Jacob and her son, the straightforward art style and topics discussed will have you hooked and finishing this in one sitting!
Read on for a full summary:
“How brown is too brown?”
“Can Indians be racist?”
“What does real love between really different people look like?”
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.
