Mira Jacob Explained

Mira Jacob
Birth Date:5 January 1973
Birth Place:Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:American
Education:Oberlin College (BA)
The New School for Social Research (MFA)
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Notableworks:The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Spouse:Jed Rothstein
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Children:1

Mira Jacob (born January 5, 1973, in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American writer. She is the author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing (2014), a novel about a patriarch who starts talking to ghosts, and Good Talk (2019), a graphic memoir.

Education and career

Jacob earned her BA from Oberlin College in 1996.[1] She earned her MFA from the New School for Social Research.

Jacob is the founder of Pete's Reading Series, a reading series in Brooklyn. She is the author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, a novel about a patriarch who starts talking to ghosts, and how his seeing spirits affects his family. The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing took Jacob 10 years to complete, during which time her father became sick and died. After his death, Jacob rewrote much of the book with the father character as her own father.

Jacob's second book, Good Talk, is a graphic memoir published in 2019.[2] Good Talk was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award,[3] long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award,[4] and named a New York Times Notable Book.[5] It was selected as a best book of the year by Time,[6] Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The memoir is currently in development as a television series with Film 44.[7]

Personal life

Jacob was born and raised in New Mexico to parents who immigrated from India in 1968, the same year they were wed in an arranged marriage. Because there were so few Indian Americans in New Mexico, people often assumed she was Native American, she told Kirkus: "They all thought we were Hopi or Apache or Mexican."[8] When Jacob was 20, her parents fell in love, she wrote in an essay for Vogue. Jacob wrote that their renewed relationship allowed her to form her own romantic relationship with filmmaker Jed Rothstein, whom she later married.[9]

She now lives in Brooklyn with Rothstein and their son.[10] [8]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Hagen, Jeff. "Comics Versus the Comments: Great Talk with Mira Jacob '96," Oberlin Alumni Magazine vol. 114, #2 (Fall/Winter 2019), pp. 12-13.
  2. News: A Graphic Novel That Answers a Child's Question About Being Biracial. Park. Ed. 2019-05-02. The New York Times. 2019-05-02. en-US. 0362-4331.
  3. Kellogg, Carolyn. "Announcements: Awards: Announcing the finalists for the 2019 NBCC Awards," National Book Critics Circle website (January 11, 2020).
  4. Press release. "ANNOUNCING THE 2020 PEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARDS LONGLISTS," PEN America website (before March 2020).
  5. Ramana, Ramya/ "2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews, TNS Lit Scene: INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST MIRA JACOB," Creative Writing at The New School (March 4, 2020).
  6. https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2019/5724549/good-talk/ "Must-Read Books of 2019,"
  7. Andreeva, Nellie, and Denise Petski. "Mira Jacob’s Memoir ‘Good Talk’ In Works As TV Series From Peter Berg & Michael Lombardo’s Film 44 And Eddie Huang," Deadline (Feb. 1, 2019).
  8. News: Labrise. Megan. Mira Jacob. September 8, 2015. Kirkus. July 1, 2014.
  9. News: Jacob. Mira. The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After: How My Parents Fell In Love, 30 Years Later. September 6, 2015. Vogue. June 26, 2014.
  10. Web site: Mira Jacob. Penguin Randomhouse. September 6, 2015.
  11. Web site: Book review: 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' by Mira Jacob. 2015-12-22. The Boston Globe. August 2, 2014. Collins-Hughes. Laura. Moving forward and back in time, Jacob balances comedy and romance with indelible sorrow, and she is remarkably adept at tonal shifts..
  12. Web site: Mira Jacob's debut novel The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing took 10 years to write. 2015-12-22. The National. July 6, 2014. East. Ben. “I’ve reached the age where the tragedies I face are unimaginable, but also unavoidable. You lose people that you love, and it’s a bludgeoning experience. So in this book I wanted to explore that. I didn’t want to lie about how devastating death can be, or make light of it, but pay homage to the sustaining strength of the family – be they Indian, Italian, or whatever – in that moment.”.
  13. Web site: 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' by Mira Jacob Is a Luminous Debut. www.bustle.com. Bustle. 2015-12-22. Blankenbiller. Tabitha.
  14. Web site: Fiction review: 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing,' by Mira Jacob. www.dallasnews.com. 2015-12-22.
  15. Web site: Mira Jacob's 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' is a sharp portrait of a grieving family. kansascity. 2015-12-22.
  16. Book: Jacob, Mira. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. 2019-04-04. Bloomsbury Publishing. 9781408880173. en.

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