{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam-paperback","title":"The Autobiography of H. LAN Thao Lam - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298126692575,"sku":"9781948980296","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1dupaQSazd9781948980296.webp?v=1788123148","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-h-lan-thao-lam-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}