Grace Loh Prasad

California, Taiwan

Writing about belonging & diaspora in NYT, Longreads, Catapult, The Offing. My memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (March 2024) is available now!

Articles

Grace Loh Prasad Reflects on Mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival

Aug 23, 2024 | nobhillgazette.com | Grace Loh Prasad

Normally I am the first to wake up on Saturdays, but today I was the last. I sensed my husband getting out of bed and the cat stretching and repositioning herself in the warm spot he left behind. I felt heavy and immobile. Was it because of the glass of wine I drank last night? I rolled over on my side to face the window, eyes still shut. The last wisps of a dream came back to me, and I realized I wasn’t ready to leave. I dreamed that I saw my parents.
Going Home: An Excerpt From The Translator’s Daughter

Jul 26, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Grace Loh Prasad

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Going Home: An Excerpt From The Translator’s Daughter

Jul 26, 2024 | therumpus.net | Grace Loh Prasad

Excerpted from Grace Prasad’s The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir (2024), by permission of Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press. On Tuesday, October 4, 2005, my mom was reported missing from her home. I didn’t find out until more than twenty-four hours later when I was in my office in San Francisco. My husband called and said, “Check your email. There’s a message from your Uncle I-to. It’s urgent.”He declined to tell me what the message said and insisted I read it myself.
A permanent foreigner

Jul 25, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Grace Loh Prasad |Brandon Ambrosino |Jack Jenkins |Aleja Hertzler- McCain

After her father’s funeral, Grace Loh Prasad finds herself alone in her parents’ apartment in Taiwan, sifting through everything they accumulated through their years of living on multiple continents. Her mother died a few years earlier. She can’t read Chinese, and there is no one left to translate the piles of papers in the offices. The unique stories behind these objects have departed with her parents.
Embracing the Unexpected: A Hybrid Approach to Memoir Structure

Jun 30, 2024 | brevity.wordpress.com | Grace Loh Prasad

Embracing the Unexpected: A Hybrid Approach to Memoir Structure By Grace Loh PrasadWhat I found hardest about writing my memoir The Translator’s Daughter wasn’t dealing with other people’s reactions, treating myself as a character, or figuring out what to put in and what to leave out. My biggest challenge was structure: how to narrate a decades-long arc when my story doesn’t have an obvious end point.
It's OK If Your Writing Isn't for Everyone

May 21, 2024 | medium.com | Grace Loh Prasad

As a debut author, I've had to get used to answering the question: What is your book about? The shortest answer: It's a memoir about language, loss, and living far away from my family in Taiwan. If the person asking is genuinely curious and not just being polite, I'll give a longer answer: In my early childhood, I was a Taiwanese person living in America. When we moved abroad, I was an American in Hong Kong, and when we visited Taiwan, I was an American or an Overseas Taiwanese.
The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir

Apr 28, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Grace Loh Prasad

What happens when the people who connect us to a cultural identity disappear? Grace Loh Prasad’s debut memoir, The Translator’s Daughter, is a delicately wrought reckoning with her Taiwanese identity and its dependence on her parents. Born in Taiwan, Loh Prasad is just 2 years old when a tangential association with a blacklisted missionary family motivates her parents to seek refuge elsewhere.
Q&A with Grace Loh Prasad, Author of The Translator's Daughter

Apr 19, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Vonetta Young |Grace Loh Prasad |Angela Peñaredondo |Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Grace Loh Prasad is the author of The Translator’s Daughter (The Ohio State University Press, March 2024). Her essay “The Orca and the Spider: On Motherhood, Loss, and Community” was previously published in The Offing. Q&A conducted by Vonetta Young, Insight Editor. Donate to The Offing! Our Patreon supporters received exclusive access to the full audio interview with The Offing contributor Grace Loh Prasad.
Have You Ever: Mammogram Edition

Mar 21, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Heather Kirn Lanier |Beina Xu |Grace Loh Prasad |Emily Siner

When the tech brings me back, an image already waits on the monitor: a white boob against the blackest black. The boob is filled with white lace, white ribbons, white strips of silk, like my breast is a diva primping herself in a pitch-black dressing room. Or maybe she’s filled with white swirls of smoke that her sultry self would have puffed in the previous century, lipstick staining her cigarette holder.
Caught Between Zodiacs: A Capricorn Daughter Remembers Her Translator Father

Mar 8, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Grace Loh Prasad

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