Giveaway ends tonight! Enter to win Mira Jacob's bestselling graphic memoir 'Good Talk' 📚
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Sending out a final reminder to enter this giveaway! I’ll be mailing one reader a hardcover copy of Indian American author Mira Jacob’s Good Talk, a bestselling intimate graphic memoir about honest conversations in an interracial family. The winner will receive their gift packaged with a personalized note from Mira herself. Entries accepted through Friday, Dec. 20 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Remember, subscriber entries count twice!
About the prize
If you’re even just a little #online, you’ve probably already heard the booming praise for Mira Jacob’s Good Talk.
In this series of “honest but not always conclusive conversations with various family members,” as The Atlantic’s Myles Poydras put it, we get an intimate glimpse of what it’s like being a person of color in the United States of America.
The illustrated memoir kicks off in 2014 when Mira’s biracial 6-year-old, Z, gets curious about his obsession with all things Michael Jackson. Who taught him to dance? Is that how people really walk on the moon? What is a LaToya? Was he brown or white?
Years later, Mira allows us into the car where she has a searing conversation with husband Jed about her MAGA-spouting in-laws. “So we’re just supposed to pretend them supporting a racist is normal?” she asks. “They don’t think he’s racist,” Jed says.
“The book lives up to its title, and reading these searching, often hilarious tête-à-têtes — with her parents and brother, confidantes and strangers, employers and exes — is as effortless as eavesdropping on a crosstown bus.”
—Ed Park, The New York Times
Preview of Good Talk below:
About Foreign Bodies giveaways
Whenever I read a book I fall in love with, I’m driven to give everyone around me a sprinkle of the magic. That means you too. These little surprise giveaways are my special way of thanking you for joining the Foreign Bodies family. I hope the books and collections I send your way make you feel a little more at home, or perhaps inspire you to learn a bit more about the myriad voices out there, voices we don’t get the privilege of hearing as often as we could.
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Talk soon.
Love,
Fiza
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