Bad Tourist

<p>2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner</p><p>2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist</p><p>2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Association</p><p>2020 Bronze Winner for Travel in the Foreword INDIES</p><p></p><p>Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook <em>Bad Tourist</em> takes us across four continents to fifteen countries showing us what <em>not </em>to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides sharks and piranha-infested waters a nightclub drugging burning bodies and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself.</p><p>Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard <em>not</em> to be a bad tourist but owing to her cultural blind spots things don't always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional shamelessly funny and wholly unapologetic Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures as well as new versions of herself. Raw bawdy and self-effacing <em>Bad Tourist</em> is a journey packed with delights and surprises--both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.</p><p></p><p><strong>Suzanne Roberts</strong> is the author of <em>Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail</em> (Nebraska 2012) and four collections of poetry. She was named the Next Great Travel Writer by National Geographic's <em>Traveler</em> and her work has been published in <em>Best Women's Travel Writing</em> and listed as Notable in <em>Best American Essays</em>. She teaches for the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Sierra Nevada University. Visit her website: suzanneroberts.net.</p>