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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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Livestream Reading: Jason Tanamor with Grace Talusan

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Jason Tanamor for a livestream reading from his latest novel, Vampires of Portlandia. He will be in conversation with Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOCvrDgvGta4PQlWSHUxRitfiVA4ioi3 About Vampires of Portlandia: When Marcella Leones relocates her family of aswang vampires from the Philippines to Portland, Oregon, she raises her grandchildren under strict rules so humans will not expose them. Her only wish is to give them a peaceful life, far away from the hunters and the Filipino government that attempted to exterminate them. Before she dies, she passes on the power to her eldest grandchild, Percival. He vows to uphold the rules set forth by Leones, allowing his family to roam freely without notice. After all, they are…

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