Join Grace Talusan at events across the country and online this spring to celebrate the paperback release of her indelible memoir The Body Papers. Out in paperback on March 3, The Body Papers won our Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and 2019 Critics’ Pick.
March 3: Boston Paperback Launch Party with Elif Armbruster at Boston Athenæum (Boston, MA)
March 4–6: AWP in San Antonio, TX — CANCELLED
March 5: With John Murillo, Natalie Diaz, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Amaud Jamal Johnson at El Luchador (San Antonio, TX) — CANCELLED
March 7: With Janelle Gray at Interabang Books (Dallas, TX)
March 10: With Alden Sajor Marte-Wood at Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX)
March 15: NYC Paperback Launch party at Zuri (New York City) — POSTPONED. New date TBA.
March 19: Papercuts J.P. (Boston, MA) — POSTPONED. New date TBA.
March 24: Framingham State Roots/Routes Series (Framingham, MA) — POSTPONED. New date TBA.
March 27: With Malaka Gharib at Newtonville Books (Newton, MA) — CANCELLED
April 8: Women & Children First (Chicago, IL) — POSTPONED. New date TBA.
April 16: With Ricco Siasoco and Mia Alvar at Bel Canto Books (Long Beach, CA) — CANCELLED
Virtual Events
April 8 at 8 pm EST
Suitcase Stories, hosted by the International Institute of New England
Register here.
April 12 at 7 PM EST
Stay at Home, Story at Home, hosted by A Lifely Read and Amazing Things Arts Center
Details here.
April 21 at 6:30 pm Pacific Time
Grace Talusan in conversation with Professor Barbara Jane Reyes, hosted by the University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program
Join via Zoom here.
April 29 at 4:20 pm Pacific Time
Wine-ing about Books, hosted by Bel Canto Books
Email belcantobooks@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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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 at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts and is a longtime member of GrubStreet. She is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. The Body Papers, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, is her first book.
By Grace Talusan
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction
Grace Talusan’s critically acclaimed memoir The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and childhood abuse.
Paperback ISBN: 9781632060242 • Mar 3, 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632061836 • Apr 9, 2019