{"product_id":"superfan-how-pop-culture-broke-my-heart-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJen Sookfong Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award. \u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2023 by the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and Apple Books Canada\u003cbr\u003eA TODAY Show Recommended Read \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity, belonging, grief, and the power of female rage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor most of Jen Sookfong Lee's life, pop culture was an escape from family tragedy and a means of fitting in with the larger culture around her. \u003ci\u003eAnne of Green Gables\u003c\/i\u003e promised her that, despite losing her father at the age of twelve, one day she might still have the loving family of her dreams. Princess Diana was proof that maybe there was more to being a good girl after all. And yet as Jen grew up, she began to recognize the ways in which pop culture was not made for someone like her--the child of Chinese immigrant parents who looked for safety in the invisibility afforded by embracing model minority myths. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanging from the unattainable perfection of Gwyneth Paltrow and the father-figure familiarity of Bob Ross, to the long shadow cast by \u003ci\u003eThe Joy Luck Club \u003c\/i\u003eand the life lessons she has learned from Rihanna, Jen weaves together key moments in pop culture with stories of her own failings, longings, and struggles as she navigates the minefields that come with carving her own path as an Asian woman, single mother, and writer. And with great wit, bracing honesty, and a deep appreciation for the ways culture shapes us, she draws direct lines between the spectacle of the popular, the intimacy of our personal bonds, and the social foundations of our collective obsessions.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJEN SOOKFONG LEE was born and raised in Vancouver's East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eSuperfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award, was named a Best Book of 2023 by the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and Apple Books Canada, and was a \u003ci\u003eTODAY \u003c\/i\u003eShow Recommended Read. Jen is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Conjoined\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Better Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe End of East\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow List\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eFinding Home\u003c\/i\u003e. Jen acquires and edits books for ECW Press\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50332273770733,"sku":"9780771025211","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/7YM579Sncb9780771025211.webp?v=1784962997","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/superfan-how-pop-culture-broke-my-heart-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}