Mira Jacob

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, a novel about a patriarch who starts talking to ghosts, and Good Talk (2019), a graphic memoir.

Early and personal life Jacob was born and raised in New Mexico to Indian Malayali parents who immigrated from Kerala, 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." 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.

She now lives in Brooklyn with Rothstein and their son. 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. long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a New York Times Notable Book. It was selected as a best book of the year by Time, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The memoir is currently in development as a television series with Film 44.

Works

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2019. .