97 pages • 3 hours read
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
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Introduction
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
- Genre: Nonfiction; graphic memoir
- Originally Published: 2019
- Reading Level/Interest: College/Adult
- Structure/Length: Approx. 368 pages; approx. 2 hours, 46 minutes on audio
- Central Concern: Jacob illuminates complicated questions about race, family, identity, love, and sexuality based on conversations with her son, family members, and others.
- Potential Sensitivity Issues: Racism and racial conflict; identity
Mira Jacob, Author
- Bio: Novelist and illustrator with writing and drawings in The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Vogue, and other publications; visiting professor at The New School; founding faculty member of MFA Program at Randolph College
- Other Works: The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing (2014)
- Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee, Autobiography (2019); Reading Women Award Nominee, Nonfiction (2019); PEN Open Book Award Nominee (2020)
CENTRAL THEMES connected and noted throughout this Teaching Unit:
- Racism in America and Its Effects on People of Color
- Hope for the Future of America
- The Effects of the Past on the Present
STUDY OBJECTIVES: In accomplishing the components of this Unit, students will:
