Race & Romance in America

Mira Jacob

I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I’d been the wrong color in America my whole life. But it hurt worse somehow, knowing it was the same in a country full of people who (I had thought) looked like me.

March 23, 2019

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Excerpted from Mira Jacob’s Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, published by Random House.

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Mira Jacob

Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed novel, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize. She lives in Brooklyn. (March 2019)

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