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: