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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Loss does not go away by ignoring it

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob

January 5, 2023 by reginadelmar Leave a Comment

My book group chose this book for January. The group tends to choose lighter reads for our first books of the year. Sleepwalker’s Guide fit the bill. Although it clocks in at almost 500 page it flowed quickly and was an easy read. Amina is a photographer living in Seattle when her mother. Kamala, calls from Albuquerque to tell her that her father has been speaking with dead relatives. Her father, Thomas, is a brain surgeon. Amina thinks her mother might be exaggerating about her […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #debutnovel, Fiction, mira jacob

reginadelmar's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #debutnovel, Fiction, mira jacob ·
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No, you cannot decide to be white. It does not work that way.

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

Be Everything at Once by Dami Lee

Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause

Present by Leslie Stein

December 1, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Good Talk This is a graphic novel in conversational form. What that means is that we trace the memoir writing of Mira Jacob, known for her novel A Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, told in a series of conversations with her son, her husband, her grandmother, her parents, and friends, and presented in a kind of graphic format with painted over photographs and illustrations, maps, images, and other visual format to support the book. These conversations at their best trace Mira Jacob’s life as an Indian-American woman […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: be everything at once, dami lee, deep dark fears, fran krause, good talk, leslie stein, mira jacob, present

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:661 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: be everything at once, dami lee, deep dark fears, fran krause, good talk, leslie stein, mira jacob, present ·
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