{"id":45160,"date":"2019-03-28T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45160"},"modified":"2019-10-10T20:19:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T00:19:16","slug":"the-body-papers-by-grace-talusan-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-body-papers-by-grace-talusan-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Body Papers by Grace Talusan [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44892\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/Body-Papers-Grace-Talusan-BookDragon-561x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/Body-Papers-Grace-Talusan-BookDragon-561x800.jpg 561w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/Body-Papers-Grace-Talusan-BookDragon.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/>Every day she didn\u2019t tell, <a href=\"http:\/\/gracetalusan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Grace Talusan<\/a> thought she was saving her grandfather\u2019s life. \u201cThere was a daytime grandfather and a nighttime grandfather, two different people in the same body.\u201d Talusan was 7 when that nocturnal monster began the sexual assaults, which spanned seven years. \u201cI told myself that the pain and sacrifice of my hell moments were required for my family\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Family was \u201cmore important than anything\u201d in Talusan\u2019s extended Filipino American Catholic clan. That they were immigrants meant even tighter bonds, especially when she learns that her father\u2019s student visa, which provided legal U.S. entry when Talusan was 2, is long expired, making deportation a viable threat.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in a Boston suburb in the 1970s, Talusan faces racism at school, including erasure by so-called friends who insist, \u201c\u2018I think of you as white.\u2019\u201d As an adult, the threat of cancer \u2013 already killing younger and younger relatives \u2013 forces radical decisions concerning her damaged body.<\/p>\n<p>Awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/restlessbooks.org\/prize-for-new-immigrant-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing<\/a>, Talusan bravely alchemizes unbearable traumas into a potent memoir remarkably devoid of self-pity, replete with fortitude and grace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Body-Papers-Grace-Talusan\/pid=9713045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Nonfiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day she didn\u2019t tell, Grace Talusan thought she was saving her grandfather\u2019s life. \u201cThere was a daytime grandfather and a nighttime grandfather, two different people in the same body.\u201d Talusan was 7 when that nocturnal monster began the sexual assaults, which spanned seven years&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1511,1326,107,20,6535],"tags":[84,8328,6608,6668,10,8329,135,51,25,29,598],"class_list":["post-45160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-filipinao","category-filipinao-american","category-memoir","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-betrayal","tag-body-papers","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-family","tag-grace-talusan","tag-grandparents","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-race-racism","tag-sexual-violence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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