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SUMMARY: Book Club: Stamped: An Anti-travel novel by Kawika Guillermo
DESCRIPTION: UBC Psychology department members are invited to join the depa
 rtment's Equity Committee at this Book Club discussion.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <h3>Interested in learning and talking about 
 antiracism?</h3><p>UBC Psychology faculty\, students\, and staff are invite
 d to join the department's Equity Committee at their next Book Club discuss
 ion on June 7.</p><p>The next book for discussion is <a href="https://kawik
 aguillermo.com/stamped/">Stamped: An anti-travel novel by Kawika Guillermo<
 /a>\, the pen name of UBC’s own <a href="https://kawikaguillermo.com/2018/0
 7/02/why-i-write-under-a-pen-name/">Christopher B. Patterson</a>.</p><h3><s
 trong>About the Book</strong></h3><ul><li><span class="a-text-bold">Winner 
 of the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Prose </sp
 an></li><li><span class="a-text-bold">Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction
 : Literary category of the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book
  Fest</span></li></ul><p><span class="a-text-bold"><img class="alignleft wp
 -image-31558 size-medium" src="https://psych.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/upl
 oads/sites/2/2022/05/stamped-cover-jacket-1-188x300.png" alt="" width="188"
  height="300" />Exasperated by the small-minded tyranny of his hometown\, S
 kyler Faralan travels to Southeast Asia with $500 and a death wish. After m
 onths of wandering\, he crosses paths with other dejected travelers: Sophea
 \, a short-fused NGO worker\; Arthur\, a brazen expat abandoned by his wife
  and son\; and Winston\, a defiant intellectual exile. Bound by pleasure-fu
 eled self-destruction\, the group flounders from one Asian city to another\
 , confronting the mixture of grief\, betrayal\, and discrimination that cau
 sed them to travel in the first place.</span></p><p>[pullquote text="Kawika
  Guillermo’s novel teaches the reader how to engage the world and reveals t
 he very best about being a traveler rather than a tourist. We follow not on
 ly a vivid visual adventure across Asia\, but also a linguistic journey int
 o understanding new language and a definition of ‘we’ that is inclusive and
  empowering and revealing." name="Shawn Hsu Wong" affiliation="Author of Ho
 mebase and American Knees"]</p><p class="a-text-bold"><span class="a-text-b
 old">Kawika Guillermo moves and writes throughout Asia and North America\, 
 usually embarking from his station in Hong Kong. This is his first novel.</
 span></p><p>Purchase the novel from <a href="https://shop.bookstore.ubc.ca/
 p-143684-stamped-an-anti-travel-novel.aspx">UBC Bookstore</a>\, <a href="ht
 tps://storestock.massybooks.com/item/d9L-TXfwm5J3lKUz6wwDmQ">Massy Books</a
 >\, <a href="https://hagerbooks.ca/item/d9L-TXfwm5J3lKUz6wwDmQ">Hager Books
 </a>\, <a href="https://bookwarehouse.ca/item/d9L-TXfwm5J3lKUz6wwDmQ">Book 
 Warehouse</a>\, or find <a href="https://not-amazon-vancouver.pory.app/">an
 other local bookstore</a> in your area.</p><p>UBC Psychology faculty\, stud
 ents\, and staff who are interested in joining this discussion can contact 
 <a href="https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/lauren-emberson/">Lauren Emberson</a>
  or <a href="https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/kristin-laurin/">Kristin Laurin</
 a> for more details.</p>
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