Day: April 21, 2019

  • “Magic and writing, it’s all misdirection, defamiliarization, and at its best, the ahhhhh moment of surprise.”

  • Susan Ito is a struggling college student, a young adult on the cusp of parental independence, when she meets her birth mother for the first time. Instead of launching into adulthood, she finds herself entangled in longing for this new kind of mother love where she sees her own self, mirrored in mysterious and tantalizing…

  • In her new graphic memoir, the author Mira Jacob documents conversations about love and race with multiple generations of her family.

  • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations Penguin Random House 2019-03-26 368 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780399589041 Mira Jacob Brooklyn, New York “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…