Monday / November 4, 2019 / 4–6 p.m.
Skillman Library, Gendebien Room

Please join us for a reading and discussion with memoirist and novelist, 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, and longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize. It was named one of the best books of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bustle, and The Millions. Her writing and drawings have appeared in The New York TimesElectric LiteratureTin HouseLiterary HubGuernicaVogue, the Telegraph,  and Buzzfeed,  and she has a drawn column on Shondaland.  She currently teaches at The New School, and she is a founding faculty member of the MFA Program at Randolph College. She is the co-founder of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn, where she spent 13 years bringing literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to Williamsburg.

Free for all! No tickets required.

Presented by the Department of English, Friends of Skillman Library, Office of the Provost, and Asian Studies Program.

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