Good Talk

A Memoir in Conversations

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A beautiful and eye-opening (Jacqueline Woodson), hilarious and heart-rending (Celeste Ng) graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing.NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Chicago Tribune • The New York Public Library • Publishers Weekly AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • BuzzFeed • Esquire • Library Journal • Kirkus ReviewsHow 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.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD 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.-TimeGood Talk uses a masterful mix of pictures and words to speak on life's most uncomfortable conversations.-io9Mira 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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Schrijver
Jacob, Mira
Titel
Good Talk
Uitgever
Random House Publishing Group
Jaar
2020
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
368
Gewicht
613 gr
EAN
9780399589065
Afmetingen
203 x 152 x 27 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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