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Disclaimer: A physical copy was provided via Bloomsbury India in exchange for an honest review. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.

A beautiful, emotive graphical memoir + conversations between a mother and son on topics that are relatable to everyone in the current scenario.

We open the book to a conversation between Mira and her son, 6 year old Z talking about his Michael Jackson; his current obsession. Innocent conversations between a mother and son; soon turn into some difficult conversations about color of their skin; belongingness, ethnicity and at heart of it, the feeling of betrayal that both Mira and Z go through when they realize that their own family doesn’t understand their anxiousness over Donald Trump’s policies.


Interspaced between this conversations; is also Mira’s experience of growing up in America; first generation American Indian – the struggle of not fully fitting in either of the cultures; of understanding how the color of her skin mattered to; not only her family but extended family in India as well. Later, this evolved into her issues with her dating life; wherein she was seen more of an exotic creature rather than someone independent of her skin and nationality; the career struggle that came with the need to make it as writer. And finally; her role as a wife of white jew; and a mother of a mixed race son.

Good Talk is an easy, fast read but it’s impact is far reaching – not only is it relevant to current times; for most of us; we can find slivers of ourselves in those conversations between Mira and Z; in the anxiousness of being a mother in today’s tension filled times as well the strain of trying to understand how to live with love and peace in the era of hate and grief.



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