Mira Jacob on the Messiness of Family

“I remember I turned to him and was like, listen, I just got to ask you. They don’t love our son less than they love their white grandkids, do they? And he was quiet. And in that quiet, I just started sobbing.”

Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a best book of the year by Time, Esquire, Publisher’s Weekly, and Library Journal.