Mira Jacob, GOOD TALK: A Memoir in Conversations

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Zibby is joined by Mira Jacob to talk about her latest book, Good Talk, which was named one of the best books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review. The graphic memoir was the result of Mira's attempts to answer her young son's questions about race in America while dealing with the political developments of 2016 — especially those that took place within her own family. Mira tells Zibby how she was able to assemble this book despite not being an illustrator or a memoirist and how her husband's family has received her side of their shared story.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium.
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0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.6	Mira Jacob is the author of Good Talk, a memoir and conversations. By the way, Mira and I co-hosted the Literacy Partners
0:45.5	Gala online last year and had the best time ever, and you could probably find that at
0:51.1	literacy partners.org. We had so much fun. It was like we'd been friends forever. And we said we had to do a podcast, so then we just did this podcast. Anyway, her graphic memoir, Good Talk, a memoir and Conversations, was shortlisted for the National Book Critic Circle Award and longlisted for the Penn Open Book Award. And her novel, The Sleepwalkers Guide to Dancing, was named one of the best
1:11.1	books of the year by Kirkus Reviews, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bustle, and The Millions. She lives in Brooklyn. Welcome, Mira. Thank you so much for coming on moms, don't have time to read books, to discuss your book, Good Talk, a memoir in Conversations. Thanks for having me. Hi.
1:07.2	Hi.
1:08.0	Mira, we had so much fun.
1:09.6	I mean, that's an odd way. Hi. Mira, we had so much fun.
1:28.9	I mean, that's an odd way to say it, but we go host at the literacy partners benefit.
1:34.3	And now I feel like just so excited to get to interview you about your work.
1:38.2	I'm very excited about this too.
1:39.7	And it was funny because we had not seen other humans in quite a while.
1:44.1	And then we hosted this
1:45.2	thing together and that was like the closest I had gotten to a party.
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