Comics
Published on September 28th, 2016 |
by Mira Jacob
QUESTIONS FROM MY MIXED-RACE SON by MIRA JACOB

Mira Jacob is joining with other MUTHAs at LitCrawl New York City this Saturday, October 1st — see you there!
This is a selection from a larger conversation my son and I had about Michael Jackson, skin color, and being mixed-race in America. The full piece is up at BuzzFeed and will also be published in my forthcoming graphic memoir, Good Talk (Dial Press).
Tags: biracial, Comics, Conversations with my Mixed-Race Son, Mira Jacob, mixed race, multi-racial, race
About the Author
Mira Jacob
Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, and longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize. In addition, it was received an honor from the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, and was named one of the best books of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bustle, and The Millions.
She is the co-founder of much-loved Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn, where she spent 13 years bringing literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to the city’s sweetest stage.
Her recent writing and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, Guernica, Vogue, the Telegraph, Buzzfeed, and Bookanista, and earlier work has appeared in various magazines, books, on television, and across the web. She has appeared on national and local television and radio, and has taught writing to students of all ages in New York, New Mexico, and Barcelona. She currently teaches fiction at NYU.
In September 2014, Mira was named the Emerging Novelist Honoree at Hudson Valley Writer’s Center, where she received a commendation from the U.S. Congress.
She is currently drawing and writing her graphic memoir, Good Talk: Conversations I’m Still Confused About (Dial Press, 2018).She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, documentary filmmaker Jed Rothstein, and their son.