{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-h-lan-lana-lin-9781948980296","title":"The Autobiography of H. LAN Thao Lam","description":"\u003cb\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lana Lin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948980290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948980296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy a Publishing Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Lana Lin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46927644590335,"sku":"9781948980296","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2c22624-0dfb-401e-950e-a18e8638c76b.jpg?v=1749372509","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-h-lan-lana-lin-9781948980296","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}