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"Indian American" > "East-Indian American", assimilating usage in first paragraph to the apparently acceptable usage found in "Personal life". (BTW: the usage "Asian Indian" is a common usage and is no more "racist" than "East Indian" or "Indian American". A disagreement on usage understandable to wikipedia readers should not result in charges of "racism". Here in New Mexico "Indian American" is likely to be interpreted as yet another synonym of "Native American".
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'''Mira Jacob''' is an Indian American writer. 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,<ref name=Globe>{{cite news|last1=Collins-Hughes|first1=Laura|title='The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' by Mira Jacob|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2014/08/02/book-review-the-sleepwalker-guide-dancing-mira-jacob/VJCqaJ3W9SQxOk96ntAhNI/story.html|accessdate=September 6, 2015|publisher=The Boston Globe|date=August 2, 2014}}</ref> and ''Good Talk'', a graphic memoir.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/books/review/graphic-content-mira-jacob.html|title=A Graphic Novel That Answers a Child’s Question About Being Biracial|last=Park|first=Ed|date=2019-05-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-05-02|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
'''Mira Jacob''' is an East-Indian American) writer. 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,<ref name=Globe>{{cite news|last1=Collins-Hughes|first1=Laura|title='The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' by Mira Jacob|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2014/08/02/book-review-the-sleepwalker-guide-dancing-mira-jacob/VJCqaJ3W9SQxOk96ntAhNI/story.html|accessdate=September 6, 2015|publisher=The Boston Globe|date=August 2, 2014}}</ref> and ''Good Talk'', a graphic memoir.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/books/review/graphic-content-mira-jacob.html|title=A Graphic Novel That Answers a Child’s Question About Being Biracial|last=Park|first=Ed|date=2019-05-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-05-02|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>


==Education==
==Education==

Revision as of 21:24, 5 June 2019

Mira Jacob
BornNew Mexico
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNew School for Social Research
Notable worksThe Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

Mira Jacob is an East-Indian American) writer. 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,[1] and Good Talk, a graphic memoir.[2]

Education

Jacob earned her MFA from the New School for Social Research.

Career

Jacob is the founder of Pete's Reading Series, a reading series in Brooklyn.[3] 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.[4]

Personal life

Jacob was born and raised in New Mexico. Because there were so few East Indians in New Mexico, people often assumed she was Native American, she told Kirkus: "They all thought we were Hopi or Apache or Mexican."[4]

Her parents were in an arranged marriage in 1968. 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.[5] She now lives in Brooklyn with Rothstein and their son.[3][4]

Works

  • The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing. A&C Black. 3 July 2014. ISBN 978-1-4088-4116-7.[6][7][8][9][10]

References

  1. ^ Collins-Hughes, Laura (August 2, 2014). "'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' by Mira Jacob". The Boston Globe. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
  2. ^ Park, Ed (2019-05-02). "A Graphic Novel That Answers a Child's Question About Being Biracial". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  3. ^ a b "Mira Jacob". Penguin Randomhouse. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c Labrise, Megan (July 1, 2014). "Mira Jacob". Kirkus. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  5. ^ Jacob, Mira (June 26, 2014). "The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After: How My Parents Fell In Love, 30 Years Later". Vogue. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
  6. ^ Collins-Hughes, Laura (August 2, 2014). "Book review: 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' by Mira Jacob". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-12-22. Moving forward and back in time, Jacob balances comedy and romance with indelible sorrow, and she is remarkably adept at tonal shifts.
  7. ^ East, Ben (July 6, 2014). "Mira Jacob's debut novel The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing took 10 years to write". The National. Retrieved 2015-12-22. "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."
  8. ^ Blankenbiller, Tabitha. "'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' by Mira Jacob Is a Luminous Debut". www.bustle.com. Bustle. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  9. ^ "Fiction review: 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing,' by Mira Jacob". www.dallasnews.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  10. ^ "Mira Jacob's 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' is a sharp portrait of a grieving family". kansascity. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
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