Title: The Body Papers Pdf
Author: Grace Talusan
Published Date: 2019-04-02
Page: 256
“Grace Talusan writes eloquently about the most unsayable things: the deep gravitational pull of family, the complexity of navigating identity as an immigrant, and the ways we move forward even as we carry our traumas with us. Equal parts compassion and confession, The Body Papers is a stunning work by a powerful new writer who—like the best memoirists—transcends the personal to speak on a universal level.” (Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere)“There is so much to admire in this brave and fierce and deeply intimate memoir. By taking such an unsentimental and plainspoken approach to her material, Talusan simply demands that the reader pay attention. The Body Papers is told in thematic sequences in which the author and the family come continually to light, in flashes that get brighter as we read, and by the end we see everyone in their full humanity and comprehend the depths of both despair and love at their core. As a child of immigrants, I found much to relate to in the family dynamics—alternately laughing and shuddering with recognition.” (Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men)“[A] precise, delicately constructed memoir-in-essays…. The Body Papers doesn’t track a one-way march to triumph from adversity; Talusan’s essays loop in on themselves, as she retrieves old memories and finds unexpected points of connection…. Talusan describes such experiences with unadorned prose that conveys a startling specificity…. 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, The New York Times (Jennifer Szalai The New York Times)“The Body Papers is an extraordinary portrait of the artist as survivor. From a legacy of trauma and secrecy spanning oceans and generations, Grace Talusan has crafted a wise, lucid, and big-hearted stand against silence—a literary lifeline for all who have endured profound pain and hope to be seen and loved through it.”—Mia Alvar, author of In the Country (Mia Alvar)“Grace Talusan’s finely-wrought and eloquent memoir, The Body Papers, 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. In less skilled hands, it all might be too much to bear, but Philippines-born Talusan ... brings us along in spare, specific, sense-rich detail, and reveals, along the way, the power to be found in giving a name to the unnamable, in giving language to subjects and experiences that defy it. Therein, Talusan shows, one can find the possibility of healing what’s happened in the past, as well as moving into the future with gratitude, wisdom, and strength.”—Nina MacLaughlin, The Boston Globe (Nina MacLaughlin The Boston Globe)“Awarded the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Talusan bravely alchemizes unbearable traumas into a potent memoir remarkably devoid of self-pity, replete with fortitude and grace.”—Terry Hong, Booklist (Terry Hong Booklist)“A Filipino-American writer's debut memoir about how she overcame a personal history fraught with racism, sexual trauma, mental illness, and cancer …. Moving and eloquent, Talusan's book is a testament not only to one woman's fierce will to live, but also to the healing power of speaking the unspeakable. A candidly courageous memoir.”—Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Reviews)“Grace Talusan makes use of immigration papers, legal certificates, and medical test results in her memoir about immigration, trauma, and illness. The winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction, The Body Papers is timely and compelling.”—R. O. Kwon, Electric Literature (R. O. Kwon Electric Literature)“Grace Talusan’s The Body Papers is one of the fiercest and most intimate books I have ever read. It is a memoir of immigration, of multiculturalism, of family betrayals and loving binds, and deeply a memoir of the body: about the documents and silences that regulate it, and the memories and emotions that live inside it. Talusan has written an urgent and necessary testament for our time. Reading it left me raw. Reading it will change you.”—Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder & A Memoir (Alex Marzano-Lesnevich)“In this moving, clear-eyed memoir, which won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, she probes the events of her life, documenting them with photographs and official papers. She involves the reader in her quest to make sense of who she has become by charting where she’s been…. The portrait Talusan creates of her father, Totoy, is one of the most complex and beautiful parts of the book…. Talusan is still working on healing. It’s clear that telling her story with such openness and perceptiveness, is part of that ongoing process.”—Jenny Shank, Barnes & Noble Blog (Jenny Shank Barnes & Noble Blog) Grace Talusan was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. She graduated from Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at UC Irvine. She is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Talusan teaches at Grub Street and Tufts.
The abuse and trauma Talusan suffers as a child affects all her relationships, her mental health, and her relationship with her own body. Later, she learns that her family history is threaded with violence and abuse. And she discovers another devastating family thread: cancer. In her thirties, Talusan must decide whether to undergo preventive surgeries to remove her breasts and ovaries. Despite all this, she finds love, and success as a teacher. On a fellowship, Talusan and her husband return to the Philippines, where she revisits her family’s ancestral home and tries to reclaim a lost piece of herself.
Not every family legacy is destructive. From her parents, Talusan has learned to tell stories in order to continue. The generosity of spirit and literary acuity of this debut memoir are a testament to her determination and resilience. In excavating such abuse and trauma, and supplementing her story with government documents, medical records, and family photos, Talusan gives voice to unspeakable experience, and shines a light of hope into the darkness.
A book about the power in telling your truth Grace Talusan's debut memoir is a must-read that—from where I read it—comes from a strong tradition of Asian Americanist storytelling. She writes critically at the intersections of race, class, citizenship, gender and religion—and yogurt? These stories are urgent; and they are not just her own. She writes with such force and awareness of the power of language and telling truth to one's experiences. "My stories are not just my stories," she writes in the first pages of the book; to me, this really sets the tone of the rest of the book. There are a lot of unsettling and at times violent stories depicted here, but the beauty in the writing lies with way Talusan writes with the future in mind, moving forward and living to tell your story. If Grace Talusan sees this: I'm so inspired by your writing! And grateful that this book exists for generations upon generations to read.Moving and brave A story that will move women and men, immigrants and non-immigrants alike about overcoming gender, racial and social barriers and coming out on the other side stronger and with the power of empathy. Family protects us, but it can also bind us and sometimes victimize us.Immigrant parents make sacrifices of the heart, body and mind for their children that only immigrants can understand. Immigrant children have resultant sacrifices. We are conflicted between a strong family loyalty and a longing to fit in as “Americans” all while dealing with sometimes traumatic family politics. In the end, we come out stronger and more empathetic. The emotions are complicated but begin and end with love and strength. That’s what Grace memorializes in The Body Papers.Grace Talusan broke through all of those boundaries in her life and in this book. The Body Papers honors her family and exposes the struggles of immigrants.@gracetalusanwriter and @restlessbooks #thebodypapersA great spirit With brutal honesty, the author details her childhood abuse and its life-altering effects. That she emerged a whole person, even while facing discrimination as an immigrant from the Philippines, is evidence of a great spirit.
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