Join Grace Talusan — Restless New Immigrant Writing Prize Winner — as she discusses her extraordinary memoir The Body Papers at the 2019 Miami Book Fair. She’ll be in conversation with Aaron Bobrow-Strain, author of The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story.
Philippine-born author Grace Talusan's memoir The Body Papers retraces a family history threaded with violence, abuse and cancer, ultimately shining a light of hope into the darkness. Aaron Bobrow-Strain's The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story reveals the human consequences of militarizing the U.S. border.
Where: Miami Book Fair at Miami Dade College, Room 8201 (Bldg. 8, 2nd Floor)
When: Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 5 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.
Aaron Bobrow-Strain writes and teaches about food politics, immigration, political economy, and the U.S-Mexico border.
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