Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing p pGrace 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.br --Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere pBorn in the Philippines, young Grace Talusan moves with her family to a New England suburb in the 1970s. At school, she confronts racism as one of the few kids with a brown face. At home, the confusion is worse her grandfather's nightly visits to her room leave her hurt and terrified, and she learns to build a protective wall of silence that maps onto the larger silence practiced by her Catholic Filipino family. Talusan learns as a teenage