{"product_id":"dark-tourist-essays-paperback","title":"Dark Tourist: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHasanthika Sirisena\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 LAMBDA literary award in bisexual nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Gournay Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Shimmers with honesty, vulnerability, and circumspection.\" --\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Sirisena explores how stories can become a 'talisman against the overwhelming darkness of another's pain' in her emotionally charged nonfiction debut ... [Her] searching spirit leaves readers with plenty to dig into.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dark tourism--visiting sites of war, violence, and other traumas experienced by others--takes different forms in Hasanthika Sirisena's stunning excavation of the unexpected places (and ways) in which personal identity and the riptides of history meet. The 1961 plane crash that left a nuclear warhead buried near her North Carolina hometown, juxtaposed with reflections on her father's stroke. A visit to Jaffna in Sri Lanka--the country of her birth, yet where she is unmistakably a foreigner--to view sites from the recent civil war, already layered over with the narratives of the victors. A fraught memory of her time as a young art student in Chicago that is uneasily foundational to her bisexual, queer identity today. The ways that life-changing impairments following a severe eye injury have shaped her thinking about disability and self-worth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deftly blending reportage, cultural criticism, and memoir, Sirisena pieces together facets of her own sometimes-fractured self to find wider resonances with the human universals of love, sex, family, and art--and with language's ability to both fail and save us.\u003ci\u003e Dark Tourist\u003c\/i\u003e becomes then about finding a home, if not in the world, at least within the limitless expanse of the page.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHasanthika Sirisena (she\/they) is a writer and cartoonist and a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of the short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Other One.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767578100000,"sku":"9780814258125","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bab3f195747001ee27ccd381d97c0142.webp?v=1780313416","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dark-tourist-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}