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Grace Talusan in Conversation with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
March 28, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeWinner of the 2017 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s memoir, The Body Papers (Restless), explores the fraught contours of her life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and sexual abuse. Talusan delves into the various bodies, both physical and metaphorical, that comprise her life as a woman, an immigrant, a writer, a survivor, a daughter, and a wife. Talusan will be joined in conversation by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body.