News
News coverage about Grace and The Translator’s Daughter.
LIST
SF Chronicle Datebook: Best of 2024—Don’t Miss Out on Reading These Standout Books
A curated list of favorite books of 2024 by Hannah Bae, including The Translator’s Daughter
Q&A
Whale Road Review: Q&A with Grace Loh Prasad
A conversation with Aiden Bass on honesty and vulnerability, writing about my parents, and being patient with the process
Q&A
Writers League of Texas: 5 Questions for Grace Loh Prasad
A brief Q&A in conjunction with my Nov. 2024 class Unlock Your Memoir with Hybrid Structure
PODCAST
She Rocked It: How to Write a Memoir That Rocks
A conversation with Karen Gross on my writing practice, publishing journey, and the importance of women telling their stories
Q&A
Raising Mothers: Mama’s Writing—Grace Loh Prasad
A Q&A about the intersections of motherhood and writing, and what it takes to have a fulfilling creative life.
list
Taiwanese Literature Based on Your Boba Order
A fun collaborative book list by @Ambershelf and @elena.luo on Instagram. The Translator’s Daughter is Taro Milk Tea.
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Electric Literature: 11 Books by Taiwanese & Taiwanese American Women
Delighted to be included on this reading list of Taiwanese American authors by Kim Liao.
REVIEW
Full Stop Magazine: Review of The Translator’s Daughter
“A lyrical and moving journey of the simultaneous possibility and impossibility of making and finding home.”—Vika Mujumdar
PODCAST
Chosen Tongue Podcast: I Don’t Have Instructions for the Language I’ve Lost
A conversation with Eleonora Balsano on language, identity, place and how art provides an alternate language to the one that was lost
EXCERPT
Nob Hill Gazette: Mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival
An excerpt from The Translator’s Daughter about when the living and deceased meet in dream-space and the symbolism of mooncakes
ESSAY
Panorama Journal: Dreaming in Diaspora
About the healing power of dreams and the significance of one’s psychic landscape/dreamscape when living in diaspora.
PODCAST
This Mama Is Lit!: A Conversation With Grace Loh Prasad
Conversation with Amanda Fields & Lisa Chiu of Literary Mama about the intersections of writing and mothering.
bookstagram
Taylor Swift as Books: The Translator’s Daughter
Check out this perfect TSwift outfit match for The Translator’s Daughter!! Cover by adam b bohannon.
REVIEW
Cha, An Asian Literary Journal: Review of The Translator’s Daughter
“Grace Loh Prasad writes about all these forms of grief in her stunning memoir The Translator’s Daughter against a backdrop for a longing of home after her family goes into exile.”
BOOK EXCERPT
The Rumpus: Going Home
An excerpt from the book about how my mother’s dementia tested my parents’ marriage—and my own.
INTERVIEW
CRAFT Literary: Grace Loh Prasad In Conversation With Susan Kiyo Ito
A conversation about the structure and themes in The Translator’s Daughter, and the importance of community.
REVIEW
The Christian Century: Review of The Translator’s Daughter
“Through a collection of beautifully written and moving essays, Prasad combs through her memories to wrestle with the consequences of migration, grief, and identity.”
ESSAY
Brevity Blog: Embracing the Unexpected: A Hybrid Approach to Memoir Structure
How I overcame the “messy middle” of writing my memoir and solved my writing challenges with hybrid structure.
ESSAY
Oldster Magazine: Letter to My Younger Self #7: Life Won’t Wait, But Writing Will
On writing through doubt, the long gestation of my memoir, and how writing & writing communities sustained me.
Q&A
Politico: One Book, Three Questions
Three questions and answers about The Translator’s Daughter in Phelim Kine’s China Watcher newsletter.
interview
TaiwaneseAmerican.org: Half a World Apart: Grace Loh Prasad in Conversation with Jami Nakamura Lin
Conversation between me and Jami Nakamura Lin, author of the memoir The Night Parade.
ESSAY
Asian American Book Club: It’s OK If Your Writing Isn’t For Everyone
Thoughts on Dictée, not fitting in, and who I actually write for.
Q&A
The Masters Review: A Conversation With Grace Loh Prasad
Conversation between me and Swetha Amit.
PODCAST
The Academic Life Podcast: Grace Loh Prasad, Author of The Translator’s Daughter
Conversation between me and Christina Gessler.
INTERVIEW
Reading Asian America: Author Interview With Grace Loh Prasad
Interview by Shenwei Chang for Taiwanese American Heritage Week 2024.
REVIEW
Washington Independent Review of Books: Review of The Translator’s Daughter
Book review by Priyanka Champaneri.
Q&A
The Offing: Q&A With Grace Loh Prasad, Author of The Translator’s Daughter
Conversation between me and Vonetta Young.
interview
Write or Die Magazine: On Diaspora, Grief and Writing Her Memoir
Conversation between me and Neha Bagchi.
rEview
Mochi Magazine: Review of The Translator’s Daughter
“Prasad’s memoir is about her experiences and the larger pattern of immigration and the making and unmaking of a family.”
RECORDING
KALW Radio New Arrivals: Excerpt of The Translator’s Daughter
Listen to me read a 2-minute excerpt of my memoir on my local NPR affiliate station.
REVIEW
Shelf Awareness: Review of The Translator’s Daughter
“Prasad's memoir is a tender tribute to her multilingual parents and a sensitive evocation of life as part of the Asian diaspora.”
BOOK excerpt
Literary Hub: Caught Between Zodiacs: A Capricorn Daughter Remembers Her Translator Father
An excerpt about beginnings & endings; fissures & overlaps; and the tension & tenderness of existing in multiple spaces.
ESSAY
Guernica: Arrivals and Departures
About my family’s history of travel and the many migrations that led to my complicated sense of identity.
ESSAY
Hawai’i Review of Books: Becoming the Translator’s Daughter
About my relationship with my dad and with language, and the reasons I didn’t inherit his fluency and mobility.
REVIEW
Foreword Reviews: Review of The Translator’s Daughter
“A poignant memoir about the joy, sadness, struggle, and complexities of being an immigrant.”
book excerpt
Longreads: Chaos and Cosmic Order: Year of the Dragon
Excerpt from the first chapter of my book, on trying to make it home in time for Lunar New Year.
REVIEW
Library Journal: Review of The Translator’s Daughter
“A compelling and poignant story that sheds light on Taiwanese culture and recent history.”
book excerpt
A Broad and Ample Road: The Pig Festival
Excerpt from my book on a pivotal election in Taiwan and the politics that informed my parents’ generation.
LIST
Electric Literature: 75 Books to Read by Women of Color in 2024
Excited to be included in R.O. Kwon’s sensational annual roundup of new/forthcoming books by women writers of color.