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Grace Talusan Reads at Sunday Salon NYC

  • Von Bar 3 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10012 USA (map)

Catch Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers, at the fantastic reading series Sunday Salon. The winner of our 2017 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, The Body Papers is a powerful memoir of family, migration, trauma, and survival.

Sunday Salon NYC celebrates wondrous prose and poetry every third Sunday of the month at 7pm.

Where: Sunday Salon NYC at Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St., New York, NY

When: Sunday, November 17 at 7 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 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.

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