Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
By: Mira Jacob
4.46
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ…
Want to Read $ 14.99"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
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1. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
By: Roz Chast
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York TimesBestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
2. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
- adult
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
3. The Best We Could Do
By: Thi Bui
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more
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4. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
- adult
5. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
6. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- audiobook
7. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- adult
8. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
By: Thien Pham
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
9. Lunar New Year Love Story
By: Gene Luen Yang
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
10. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
11. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
12. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
By: Kristen Radtke
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more
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- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
- adult
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
13. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
14. I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
By: Malaka Gharib
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a t… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
- adult
15. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
By: Navied Mahdavian
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
- adult
16. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
By: Mira Jacob
4.46
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
- race
- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
17. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
By: Tessa Hulls
4.52
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
- adult
18. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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- race
- biography
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Litany for the Long Moment
By: Mary-Kim Arnold
4.38
Format: None pages, None
Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. The orphan at the center of LITANY FOR THE LON… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
20. The Grave on the Wall
By: Brandon Shimoda
4.17
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship wi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
21. Dumb: Living Without a Voice
By: Georgia Webber
3.35
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething cop… read more
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