The Body Papers: A Memoir by Grace Talusan

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" 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. " - Excerpts from the publisher's website.

About the Author
Grace Talusan is a writer and writing teacher. As a child, she immigrated to the United States from the Philippines with her parents. She has published essays, longform journalism, fiction and book reviews in Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Boston Magazine, Boston Globe, The Rumpus, and many others. She is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and has been awarded residencies to Hedgebrook, Ragdale, and the Dune Shacks in Provincetown. She is a graduate of Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. At Tufts University, she teaches in the English Department and The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. She is a longtime member and teacher at Grub Street, an independent creative writing center. She lives outside of Boston with her husband.

Publisher: Restless Books
Publish Date: April 09, 2019
Pages: 272Dimensions: 4.9 X 1.1 X 7.3 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language: English
Type: Hardcover
EAN/UPC: 978-16-3-206183-6