{"product_id":"9780771025211-1","title":"Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Jen Sookfong Lee (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45706704978108,"sku":"9780771025211","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0694\/8559\/2764\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0967a3d8-e84f-42c8-b473-686b3fdff21b.jpg?v=1768408673","url":"https:\/\/wordsquirrelbooks.com\/products\/9780771025211-1","provider":"Word Squirrel Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}