FAIR & LOVELY
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AMERICAN LOVE
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BIG CITY ROMANCE
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Excerpted from Mira Jacob’s Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, published by Random House.
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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, longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize. She lives in Brooklyn. (March 2019)
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