Download PDF Good Talk A Memoir in Conversations Mira Jacob 9780399589041 Books

Product details Hardcover 368 pages Publisher One World (March 26, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 039958904X

Good Talk A Memoir in Conversations Mira Jacob 9780399589041 Books Reviews

• In this memoir, Mira Jacob explores her life and her awakening to the realities of being a person of color in the United States, alternating with her attempts to guide her mixed-race young son amid those same realities. The format is a series of several dozen conversations (“talks”), presented as comix with paperdoll-like characters over evocative photographic backgrounds of the relevant setting (various homes, big-city streets, outdoors).
  
  I laughed out loud, I teared up. I felt turn-the-page suspense, discouragement, and the slightest hint of optimism. The book is readable in one sitting, but it’s not light material as Jacob develops the issues and powerfully immerses the reader in her experience. GOOD TALK is a very good book, and it’s an important book.
• Audiobook....narrated by Mira Jacob, and a wonderful full cast
  
  ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC..... A MUST LISTEN TO!!!!!!!
  
  ITS HILARIOUS......but... WE FEEL THE PAIN!!!!!!
  
  I laughed, I cried, I was in ‘aw’ with Mira’s son, Z. I fell deep in love with Mira - her family - and Mira’s ruthless passion.
  WE REALLY GET the pain & hurt she has lived with her ENTIRE LIFE... WE GET THE MESSAGE....SOO deeply - I still have tears in my eyes as I type.
  
  I was incredibly impressed with the styling- crafting - of BOTH THE BOOK ( written words Mira wrote), and the brilliant creativeness in the audiobook. There were added sounds that were outstanding and powerful. Why has nobody else thought of this yet? Mira may have started a trend in adding more creativity audiobooks.
  
  This book is so gut wrenching RAW- and REAL. I listen from start to finish without stopping. It’s only 2 hours long....
  ........soooo wonderful -
  You finish wanting everyone to get their hands on this!!!
  
  I read Mira Jacob’s first book, “The Sleepwalker’s Guide To Dancing”, years ago. I later met her at a book festival in Austin. We had a great conversation. I liked Mira’s first book - remember much of it well.....
  But in this book, she out does herself. REALLY A POWERFUL PUNCH!!!
  ****GOOD TALK****, like the title says! is ****GREAT TALK****!!!!
  
  It’s been a long time since I was THIS jazzed about THE AUDIOBOOK ‘itself’.
  Two other audiobooks gave me the chills - Goosebumps- as in SO FRICKEN FRESH - in delivery and dialogue. “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me”, by Sherman Alexie moved me BIG TIME.....
  AND NOW......
  “GOOD TALK”..... moved me BIG TIME! It will move you!!!!!!
  
  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
  
  elysejody
• The headline is that I loved this book. It's creative, well-plotted and drawn, funny, and deals with meaningful subjects in creative and witty ways. Looking for a good primer on "soft racism" and issues around love, race, and gender? Get ready for a "Good Talk."
  
  Sure, a lot of the subject matter in "Good Talk" is hard to deal with in real life racism, terrorism, family dynamics, just to name a few. And solutions may be hard to impossible, awkward and uncomfortable. But Jacob's book makes it clear that, while the topics may be hard, starting to talk about them is important, and is a task that should be started early and revisited often. Her humor, directed in equal parts at the world and at herself, makes this discussion of universal experiences at the same time a very personal narrative.
• It touches on racism, colorism, interracial relationships, immigration and so much more - all while being funny, thought-provoking, and wonderfully vulnerable and courageous. I got my copy on a Monday, and since then read it immediately, put it on my coffee table where I intended for it to live, and 3 days later ended up giving it away to a friend, and ordered another copy for myself, and it arrived on Saturday -- and I'm reading it again, and will probably give it away again, and buy another. It’s that good.
• Such an amazing, wonderful book + the hard cover is looks (and feels) so nice!
  It's an easy read (I read it in one swoop on a weekend) and catches today's Zeitgeist in an incredible fashion. Be prepared for it to make you both feel warm and for it to make you cry - it will touch your soul in a very tender place.
  I can tell that I will be keeping this book around and giving it to my kids to read someday.
• Loved this and am recommending it to my friends/family. Her humor breaks up the heaviness of the topic. She covers a lot of ground in this book, including colorism, bigotry of people of color toward other groups of people of color, and racism. It hit very, very close to home for my husband and I.
• Mira Jacob's gift is that she can make a reader move from laughter to heartache in the space of two sentences. In this incredible work, she augments this gift with the power of illustration, cleverly making difficult topics easier to grasp and digest. Poignant, important, essential-- buy it for the people you need to have a tough conversation with.
• What Mrs. Jacob does in this book is open her life, struggles and dreams to any who care to read it (you should). The juxtaposition of the heavy topics with the graphic novel style format sometimes softens the uncomfortable topics and other times brings them into sharp focus. The openness with which Mrs. Jacob discusses herself and family is daunting and very much appreciated. If you want to understand what it is like to not feel accepted in two communities because of superficialities this book exposes that.
  
  It's a fantastic read ...