Mira Jacob
| Mira Jacob | |
|---|---|
| Born | New Mexico |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Indian |
| Alma mater | New School for Social Research |
| Notable works | The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing |
Mira Jacob is an Indian American author known for her novel The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, a book about a patriarch who starts talking to ghosts, and how his seeing spirits affects his family.[1]
Career
Jacob earned her MFA from the New School for Social Research. She is the founder of Pete's Reading Series, a reading series in Brooklyn.[2] 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.[3]
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."[3]
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.[4] She now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their son.[2] Jacob and Rothstein have one child together.[3]
Works
- The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing. A&C Black. 3 July 2014. ISBN 978-1-4088-4116-7.[5][6][7][8][9]
- Die Aufforderung des Schlafwandlers zum Tanz. Bastei Entertainment. 12 March 2015. ISBN 978-3-7325-0591-3.
References
- ↑ Collins-Hughes, Laura (August 2, 2014). "'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' by Mira Jacob". The Boston Globe. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
- 1 2 "Mira Jacob". Penguin Randomhouse. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
- 1 2 3 Labrise, Megan (July 1, 2014). "Mira Jacob". Kirkus. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.”
- ↑ Blankenbiller, Tabitha. "'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' by Mira Jacob Is a Luminous Debut". www.bustle.com. Bustle. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ↑ "Fiction review: 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing,' by Mira Jacob". www.dallasnews.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ↑ "Mira Jacob's 'The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing' is a sharp portrait of a grieving family". kansascity. Retrieved 2015-12-22.