Join Immigrant Prize winning author Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers, for the Red Ink Reading Series at Books Are Magic on April 19th, where she’ll be in discussion with Deborah Landau (Soft Targets), Mira Jacob (Good Talk), Jennifer Pastiloff (On Being Human), and Hannah Tinti (The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley) on the topic of authenticity in writing. The discussion will be hosted by Michele Filgate, and is co-sponsored by Literary Hub.
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.
Where: Books Are Magic
When: April 19, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
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