Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker¿s Guide to Dancing

¿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, adapted for audio, is a love letter to the art of conversation¿and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions.

Read by: Vikas Adam, Shiromi Arserio, McCartney Birdwell, Donte Bonner, Bill Cheng, Ian Conlin, Nicole Counts, Margaret Dunham, Karen Dziekonski, Chris Edmund, Alison Fraser, Cecila Flores, Brieana Garcia, Kaitlyn Greenridge, Rob Guzman, Alison Hart, Ruby Liu, Chris Jackson, Soneela Nankani, Nick Martorelli, Victory Matsui, Kivlighan de Montebello, Meera Nair, Lorna Raver, Richie Romaniello, Andrea Saggau, Rajiv Surendra, Richard Wylde, Oliver Wyman, and Dan Zitt