A review by earldizon
The Body Papers: A Memoir by Grace Talusan

4.0

A lot going on here- the immigrant experience, escaping a dictatorship, moving to a new country, moving back to a different country, coping with cancer, dealing with society's expectations of being a woman of a certain age and  having kids, complex family relationships, racism, and surving sexual abuse- but handled well and with sensitivity. A moving memoir that shows we are everything that's happened to us and, at the same time, more than all of that.