{"product_id":"book-wf7u","title":"The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamscape","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50448953016624,"sku":"BDwf7u","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/wf7u-cover.jpg?v=1765956106","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-wf7u","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}