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Grace Talusan in Conversation with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Powell's Books on Hawthorne 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Winner 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.

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