'A different way of understanding the story'
Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke to Jhoanna Belfer of Bel Canto Books in Long Beach, Calif.Mira Jacob was a novelist first, earning praise for her fiction, before she embarked on a memoir: “Good Talk.”That memoir is unlike anything else, says bookseller Jhoanna Belfer.“It’s a graphic memoir, and so it’s written in the format of essentially what looks like cartoons.” The art is a collage of drawings and photographs.“I don’t think she trained as an artist, but she had this idea to write her memoir…
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