A Constant Process of Waking: The Millions Interviews Mira Jacob
by Cheryl Klein
Mar 19, 2019
4 minutes
A graphic memoir composed almost entirely of dialogue and static drawings might seem like an unlikely follow-up to The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, Mira Jacob’s acclaimed 2014 novel. But Jacob, author of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, which will be published this month by One World, doesn’t shy away from a challenge.
No matter whether the challenge is explaining race relations and Michael Jackson’s fluctuating skin color to her six-year-old mixed-race son, or confronting the mother-in-law she adores about supporting Donald Trump.
Jacob, the daughter of East Indian immigrant parents and married to a Jewish man, does all of this and more in . She allows her characters—her
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