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I’ve been looking forward to Rattawut Lapcharoensap’s debut collection of stories, Sightseeing, ever since reading his in Zoetrope: All-Story. But in the NY Times, Darin Strauss reviews it a little harshly, I think, insinuating that the writer is “lucky” because his story is “familiar to him and exotic to his readers.” And that, it seems to me, suggests that Strauss already has an expectation of what to find in the book: exoticism, which he seems to both enjoy (describing Lapcharoensap as “a tour guide”) and dislike (“leans on exotic atmosphere and little else.”) Or is it simply the case that the kind of exoticism Strauss is looking for is not the kind Lapcharoensap offers?
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.