Mira Jacob
Author
Language
English
Description
"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste Ng
“How brown is too brown?”
“Can Indians...
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste Ng
“How brown is too brown?”
“Can Indians...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Da stürzt sich ein Mann von einer Brücke in Seattle - und Amina schießt das Foto, das berühmt werden wird. Doch wie abgebrüht muss man sein, in einem solchen Moment auf den Auslöser zu drücken? Amina verzeiht sich das nicht, verdingt sich fortan als Hochzeitsfotografin. Doch als ihr Vater sterbenskrank wird, muss sie sich ihrer bewegten Vergangenheit stellen, einer Geschichte, die in den 70er Jahren in Indien begann und nun in New Mexiko ihren...
Author
Publisher
One World, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer finalist and bestselling author Nathan Englander will be joined by author Mira Jacob (The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing) to discuss his new, novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, a powerful, riveting story exploring the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lives of a prisoner in a secret cell and the soldier who watched over him for a dozen years. With a performance from the novel by actor Josh Hamilton (13 Reasons Why).