Bad Tourist

Misadventures in Love and Travel

By: Suzanne Roberts

Narrated by: Eileen Smith

Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to 15 countries, showing us what not 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.

Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not 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, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises - both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

The 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal winner; a 2021 National Indie Excellent Awards finalist; 2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Association.

©2020 Suzanne Roberts (P)2021 Redwood Audiobooks

So fun!

I finally finished listening to these short stories and WOW, so much fun! These stories are so real, relatable and entertaining. I laughed out loud MANY times. Suzanne wrote beautifully; there is a story for everyone. Very much enjoyed the narrator as well, she really brought the stories to life. Highly recommend.

Thought provoking

Interesting memoir of travel and relationships. Left me impressed with her adventuresome spirit and bravery in facing her fears. I wondered why the time line wasn’t more linear but I thoroughly enjoyed the book
The narrator’s expressive reading style got the author’s emotions across really well and it felt like the author was in the room telling me her story.