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\"Sightseeing\"<\/a>Clint Eastwood, Summer Love, and Cockfighting<\/strong><\/p>\n

The good news first: Rattawut Lapcharoensap\u2019s\u00a0family in Thailand is all fine; the tsunami thankfully did not harm them. The other good news:\u00a0His collection of short stories, Sightseeing<\/em>, which\u00a0debuts this week, is absolutely superb.<\/p>\n

Born in Chicago, raised in Bangkok, and currently\u00a0living in Norwich, England on a fellowship at the\u00a0University of East Anglia, the 25-year-old\u00a0Lapcharoensap (called \u201cA\u201d by everyone except\u00a0\u201cunfriendly bureaucratic institutions,\u201d he says) vividly\u00a0captures a slice of life for each of his memorable\u00a0characters. From a young hapa boy (who keeps a\u00a0pet pig named Clint Eastwood!) who believes he\u2019s in\u00a0love with a summer tourist, to an old American\u00a0codger transplanted to Thailand to live out his final\u00a0years with his son and Thai daughter-in-law, to a\u00a0young girl on the brink of adulthood who witnesses\u00a0her father\u2019s humiliating downfall through gambling,\u00a0Lapcharoensap\u2019s characters leave a lingering\u00a0memory even as his words come to an end.<\/p>\n

AsianWeek<\/em><\/strong>: Where did the inspiration for Sightseeing<\/em> come from? I understand that these stories are not at all autobiographical …
\n Rattawut Lapcharoensap<\/strong>: Many of the stories\u00a0were partly born out of a certain frustration with\u00a0depictions of Thais and Thailand in contemporary\u00a0English-language literature. The Thailand I often\u00a0encountered seemed a far cry from the Thailand I\u00a0thought I knew, the Thailand I loved.<\/p>\n

Whether or not my stories are ‘autobiographical’ depends upon what is meant by the term. If ‘autobiography’ means an account of a life\u2019s events,\u00a0then this is not an autobiographical book. The events of my life have not been transposed onto the page.\u00a0Nevertheless, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s such a thing as a\u00a0piece of writing uninformed by an author\u2019s life\u00a0experiences. You can\u2019t write about people unless\u00a0you\u2019ve known a few. My characters often come to me\u00a0by way of their voices \u2013\u00a0a line of dialogue, snippet\u00a0of conversation, the way they may or may not say\u00a0something.<\/p>\n

AW<\/em><\/strong>: How has your family reacted to your book?
\n RL<\/strong>: My family\u2019s reaction to the book has been one of pride and a certain measure of relief, I think. I was unemployed in the winter of 2004 and had decided to finish my book on the small bit of money that I had set aside over the years. There was quite a bit of skepticism about my decision at the time, not only from my family but also, of course, from myself; watching my bank account dwindle that winter made me feel pretty foolish, particularly when the writing wasn\u2019t going as planned. Needless to say, when the book was accepted for publication in April, there was joy, but there was also, I think, an enormous amount of relief. I felt \u2013 and continue to feel \u2013 inordinately lucky: [that] I should be able to make my living doing something I love.<\/p>\n

AW<\/em><\/b>: How different is it being Thai in English versus Thai in the United States?\u00a0
\nRL<\/b><\/b>:\u00a0Being Thai anywhere outside of Thailand is a bit of a strange thing. Aside from the community\u2019s recent visibility via fancy restaurants, Thais have been fairly invisible in the literature on Asian immigration to Europe and America. (I remember a time before the restaurant boom when people would often mistake Thailand for Taiwan.)<\/p>\n

That said, being Thai in the U.S. is vastly different from being Thai in England. The British, I\u2019ve discovered, have a far more specific relationship to Thais and Thailand. I would put good money on the proposition that every single person in Britain has either been to Thailand or knows somebody who has. For many young people of a certain social class here, going to Thailand seems a rite of passage. What this means, personally, is that people ask me far less about food when I meet them (which happens at a rather alarming rate in the U.S.) and far more about other things (equally innocuous, equally alarming). There\u2019s a more substantive sense here of Thailand as a place.<\/p>\n

AW<\/b><\/em>: Where is “home” for you?
\nRL<\/b>:\u00a0It\u2019s hard to talk about this without resorting to clich\u00e9s, getting melodramatic or speaking with a forked New Age tongue. I suppose that my own experience has taught me that \u201chome\u201d is hardly a stable concept; it often encompasses not only the emotional and the physical but also the material realm. In that sense, then, I have a rather clear, idealized sense of what a home should be, and I think that it is one that many of my characters share: a place where you can eat and sleep comfortably, without worrying about your material survival, surrounded by those you love who love you in return. Many of us spend our lives, I suppose, trying to get there. Many of us, unfortunately, never do.<\/p>\n

Author interview<\/strong>: “Clint Eastwood, Summer Love, and Cockfighting,” AsianWeek<\/em>, January 21, 2005<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Sightseeing\"Clint Eastwood, Summer Love, and Cockfighting<\/strong><\/p>\n

The good news first: Rattawut Lapcharoensap\u2019s family in Thailand is all fine; the tsunami thankfully did not harm them. The other good news: His collection of short stories, Sightseeing<\/em>, which debuts this week, is absolutely superb.<\/p>\n

Born in Chicago, raised in Bangkok, and currently living in Norwich, England on a fellowship at the University of East Anglia, the 25-year-old Lapcharoensap (called \u201cA\u201d by everyone except \u201cunfriendly bureaucratic institutions,\u201d he says) vividly captures a slice of life for each of his memorable characters. From a young hapa boy (who keeps a pet pig named Clint Eastwood!) who believes he\u2019s in love with a summer tourist, to an old American codger transplanted to Thailand to live out his final years with his son and Thai daughter-in-law, to a young girl on the brink of adulthood who witnesses her father\u2019s humiliating downfall through gambling, Lapcharoensap\u2019s characters leave a lingering memory even as his words come to an end.<\/p>\n

AsianWeek<\/em><\/strong>: Where did the inspiration for Sightseeing<\/em> come from? I understand that these stories are not at all autobiographical …
\n Rattawut Lapcharoensap<\/strong>: Many of the stories were partly born out of a certain frustration with depictions of Thais and Thailand in contemporary English-language literature. The Thailand I often encountered seemed a far cry from the Thailand I thought I knew, the Thailand I loved.<\/p>\n

Whether or not my stories are ‘autobiographical’ depends upon what is meant by the term. If ‘autobiography’ means an account of a life\u2019s events, then this is not an autobiographical book. The events of my life have not been transposed onto the page. Nevertheless, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s such a thing as a piece of writing uninformed by an author\u2019s life experiences. You can\u2019t write about people unless you\u2019ve known a few. My characters often come to me by way of their voices \u2013 a line of dialogue, snippet of conversation, the way they may or may not say something.<\/p>\n

AW<\/em><\/strong>: How has your family reacted to your book?
\n RL<\/strong>: My family\u2019s reaction to the book has been one of pride and a certain measure of relief, I think. I was unemployed in the winter of 2004 and had decided to finish my book on the small bit of money that I had set aside over the years. There was quite a bit of skepticism about my decision at the time, not only from my family but also, of course, from myself; watching my bank account dwindle that winter made me feel pretty foolish, particularly when the writing wasn\u2019t going as planned. Needless to say, when the book was accepted for publication in April, there was joy, but there was also, I think, an enormous amount of relief. I felt \u2013 and continue to feel \u2013 inordinately lucky: [that] I should be able to make my living doing something I love. … [click here for more<\/a>]<\/p>\n

of my life have not been transposed onto the page.<\/div>\n
Nevertheless, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s such a thing as a<\/div>\n
piece of writing uninformed by an author\u2019s life<\/div>\n
experiences. You can\u2019t write about people unless<\/div>\n
you\u2019ve known a few. My characters often come to me<\/div>\n
by way of their voices \u2014 a line of dialogue, snippet<\/div>\n
of conversation, the way they may or may not say<\/div>\n
something.<\/div>\n
HOW HAS YOUR FAMILY REACTED TO YOUR<\/div>\n
BOOK?<\/div>\n
RL: My family\u2019s reaction to the book has been one of<\/div>\n
pride and a certain measure of relief, I think. I was<\/div>\n
unemployed in the winter of 2004 and had decided<\/div>\n
to finish my book on the small bit of money that I had<\/div>\n
set aside over the years. There was quite a bit of<\/div>\n
skepticism about my decision at the time, not only<\/div>\n
from my family but also, of course, from myself;<\/div>\n
watching my bank account dwindle that winter made<\/div>\n
me feel pretty foolish, particularly when the writing<\/div>\n
wasn\u2019t going as planned. Needless to say, when the<\/div>\n
book was accepted for publication in April, there was<\/div>\n
joy, but there was also, I think, an enormous amount<\/div>\n
of relief. I felt \u2014 and continue to feel \u2014 inordinately<\/div>\n
lucky: [that] I should be able to make my living doing<\/div>\n
something I love.<\/div>\n

Author interview<\/strong>: “Clint Eastwood, Summer Love, and Cockfighting,” AsianWeek<\/em>, January 21, 2005 <\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

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RL: My family\u2019s reaction to the book has been one of pride and a certain measure of relief, I think. I was unemployed in the winter of 2004 and had decided to finish my book on the small bit of money that I had set aside over the years. There was quite a bit of skepticism about my decision at the time, not only from my family but also, of course, from myself; watching my bank account dwindle that winter made me feel pretty foolish, particularly when the writing wasn\u2019t going as planned. Needless to say, when the book was accepted for publication in April, there was joy, but there was also, I think, an enormous amount of relief. I felt \u2013 and continue to feel \u2013 inordinately lucky: [that] I should be able to make my living doing something I love. ... [click here for more] of my life have not been transposed onto the page. Nevertheless, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s such a thing as a piece of writing uninformed by an author\u2019s life experiences. 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