BIO
Grace Talusan (click for pronunciation) is the author of THE BODY PAPERS, which won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant writing and the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction. In 2022, she was awarded fellowships from United States Artists, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Brother Thomas Fund. She teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University.
REVIEWS
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“Talusan chronicles that fraught passage from one world, one body, to another, marking with sensitivity how an American life can be both burden and benediction.”
LUIS FRANCIA, NEW YORK TIMES
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“Such commentary, while righteous and earned, is not the point of this indelible book. Talusan has the instincts of a storyteller, teasing out her narrative through images and allusion.”
JENNIFER SZALAI, NEW YORK TIMES
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Grace Talusan’s finely-wrought and eloquent memoir, “The Body Papers,” out April 9, was the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. The book is visceral, bodily, and throbs with pain and trauma — sexual abuse by a family member, cancer, the phantom-limb ache of an outsider in a foreign land, and later, as an outsider in the homeland.
NINA MACLAUGHLIN, THE BOSTON GLOBE
CONTACT
For speaking inquiries, media queries, comments, and questions,
contact Grace Talusan at gracetalusanauthor@gmail.com
Publisher: Restless Books
For review, desk and exam copies: alison@restlessbooks.com
Literary Agent: Jenni Ferrari-Adler