The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam - Lana Lin

Name: The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam - Lana Lin
Brand: Dorothy Project
SKU: 9781948980296
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The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin / 224-page paperback published in 2025 by Dorothy Project / ISBN 9781948980296

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Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction

Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.

In her 1933 The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 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.

At heart a candid chronicle of her partner Lan Thao’s life journey from Viet 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.