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Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan�s memoir The Body Papers powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and sexual abuse. With dexterous literary subtlety, debut memoirist Grace Talusan excavates a legacy of violence and abuse that, unmentionable at the time, dominated her childhood and shaped her adulthood. Throughout, she navigates the psychological stress of immigrant life in America, and lifts the heavy shroud of secrecy and silence that presses down on her community. This artfully wrought and insightful memoir recounts the mounting aggressions inflicted upon the author�s body�illness, sexual abuse, and racism�that all come to bear on her ability to write, develop human connections, and survive. Giving a voice to the Philippine diaspora, The Body Papers simmers beneath the surface of a New England suburb that is rife with the secret pain of immigrant children and their parents struggling to assimilate while remaining connected to their culture. Interlacing prose and visual images�such as immigration papers, cancer test results, and legal certificates�The Body Papers maps an associative path to the epicenters of reverberating injury, investigates the myriad ways in which trauma can render one invisible, and throughout shines with hope and breathtaking resilience.