{"product_id":"9781948980296","title":"The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam","description":"\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam \u003c\/i\u003eis an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her 1933 \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e, Gertrude Stein invented a new literary form by narrating her own story from the perspective of her partner, blurring the lines between portrait and self-portrait. Almost a century later, experimental filmmaker and artist Lana Lin has resurrected Stein’s project to tell a different story of queer love, life, and artistic collaboration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt heart a candid chronicle of her partner Lan Thao’s life journey from Việt Nam during the war, and her own troubled history as a gender-queer Taiwanese American, Lin draws in subjects as varied as photography, cancer, tropical fruit, 9\/11, and Eve Sedgwick’s eyeglasses, weaving an intimate landscape of living that is also a critical investigation of race and gender.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42606602453053,"sku":"9781948980296","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781948980296_p0.jpg?v=1771581390","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781948980296","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}