{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam-9781948980296","title":"The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We are supposed to know where we are with biography and autobiography, they are the literary equivalents of the portrait and the self-portrait,” writes Jeanette Winterson about Gertrude Stein’s 1932 classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e. By narrating her own story from the perspective of her partner, Stein invented a literary form that was both intimate and uncanny, blurring lines of authority and identity as it winds through a story of two women living and loving together through a tumultuous moment in history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlmost a century later, experimental filmmaker and artist Lana Lin has resurrected Stein’s project to tell another story of queer love, life, and artistic collaboration in a differently discordant age. At heart a candid chronicle of her partner Lan Thao’s life journey from Vietnam during the war and her own troubled history as a gender-queer Taiwanese American, Lin’s \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e draws in subjects as varied as photography, tropical fruit, New York real estate, and queer theorist Eve Sedgewick’s eyeglasses, weaving a landscape of living that is also a critical investigation of race and gender in our time.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864235442519,"sku":"9781948980296","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781948980296.jpg?v=1759921758","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam-9781948980296","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}