Fall 2019 Tour — Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers: A Memoir

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing Grace Talusan will be touring the country this fall. Her acclaimed memoir The Body Papers excavates memories of migration, childhood abuse, and cancer, laying bare extraordinary pain and resilience. Celeste Ng calls it “a stunning work by a powerful new writer who—like the best memoirists—transcends the personal to speak on a universal level.” We hope to see you at one of her events this fall!

Oct. 7: Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL)

Oct. 7: Prairie Lights Bookstore (Iowa City, IA)

Oct. 11–13: Filipino American International Book Festival (San Francisco, CA)

Oct. 14: UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center (Berkeley, CA)

Oct. 20: Boston Book Festival (Boston, MA)

Oct. 22: Decolonize Your Bookshelves (Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, MD)

Oct. 26: Concord Festival of Authors—Breakfast with the Authors (Concord, MA)

Oct. 29: Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)

Nov. 2: He Done Her Wrong: The Redemptive Value of Reframing Violence against Women in Story at the San Diego Public Library (San Diego, CA)

Nov. 4: Adventures by the Book—Conversations Worth Having: A Dinner Adventure with Grace Talusan (San Diego, CA)

Nov. 17: Sunday Salon at Von Bar (New York, NY)

Nov. 24: Miami Book Fair International (Miami, FL)

Nov. 25: Reading Public Library (Reading, MA)

Nov. 27: University of Michigan Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Ann Arbor, MI [details TBA]

Dec. 3: Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Grace Talusan was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. A graduate of Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at UC Irvine, she is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Talusan teaches the Essay Incubator at GrubStreet and at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts. She is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University for 2019–2021. The Body Papers, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, is her first book.