(#partner @randomhouse) • Good Talk by Mira Jacob is a graphic memoir in conversations. Many of the conversations are with her six-year-old son. Mira Jacob is Indian and her husband is Jewish. Some of the questions from her son are pretty heartbreaking - for example, he asks if his dad is scared of them because they have brown skin. Of course, the questions became more complex after Trump won the election.

It feels like Mira Jacob is sharing parts of her soul with us in this book. She’s vulnerable but also wry and witty. She is frank and open about her experiences as a person of color living in the US. I love the drawings, too, and she even includes some photographs. They made for a unique reading experience - we get to see things the way she saw them.

I saw that there is a TV series in the works based off this book, and I am soooo excited and hopeful that it happens. I think everyone should read this book, but even more people would be exposed to this work if it were also a show!

I don’t really have much else to say except read this. To try and further convince you, here are a bunch of adjectives to describe it: brilliant, funny, open, intimate, necessary, honest. A must-read.