This event has been postponed; we will announce the new date as soon as possible.
Join Grace Talusan at Papercuts JP in Boston to celebrate the paperback release of her extraordinary memoir The Body Papers! Her story of immigration, abuse, cancer, and family has connected with readers across the country and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Critics’ Pick for 2019.
“This memoir will peel you back sentence after sentence, leaving your nerve endings grateful for the body that wrote it.”
—Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk and The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing
When: Thursday, March 19 [time TBA]
Where: Papercuts JP (Boston, MA)
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