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Grace Talusan will be in conversation with Elif Armbruster to celebrate the release of The Body Papers in paperback. Reckoning with trauma, abuse, and her experience as a Filipina American, it’s a powerful, silence-breaking work of memoir. Now out in paperback, The Body Papers is a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Critics’ Pick for 2019. Registration for this event is required, and books will be available for sale.

Where: Boston Athenæum (Boston, MA)

When: Tuesday, March 3, 12–1 PM

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 Grub Street. 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.

Elif Armbruster, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University where she focuses her teaching and research on American literature, women's writing, and ethnic and immigrant studies. In addition to her book, Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home, Elif has published and delivered papers on Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Anchee Min, and Laura Esquivel, among many others. She is currently working on a study of "Nasty Women" in American Literature as well as writing a memoir, for which she is enrolled in a yearlong course at Grub Street, where she had the good fortune to meet Grace Talusan.

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