{"product_id":"9781988355085","title":"How Do I Look? by Sennah Yee","description":"Through a series of short vignettes, Sennah Yee's debut full-length book How Do I Look? paints a colourful portrait of a woman both raised and repelled by the media.  With pithy, razor-sharp prose, Sennah dissects and reassembles pop culture through personal anecdotes, crafting a love-hate letter to the media and the microaggressions that have shaped how she sees herself and the world.  How Do I Look? is a raw and vulnerable reflection on identities real and imagined. Praise\"In Yee's poetry, whole worlds, multiple worlds, can live in just a few sentences, and countless people and histories can exist within one person's body.  It almost makes reading full novels feel silly when you can live a whole life in just one of Yee's paragraphs. \"- Mitski, pop star\"Sennah Yee's How Do I Look? is a selfie through a webcam in the compact mirror tossed over the shoulder of a nightswimmer into a suburban chlorine pool.  These poems are the hit radio lyrics that roll around in the mind before falling asleep, the silently crafted love poems for an unrequited crush written on a blog saved in drafts, the emails sent to one's future self opened at a karaoke bar years later in another country.  How Do I Look? made me look back and get home safe.  I look in the rear view mirror to find flowers growing out of me. \" - Stacey Tran, author of Soap for the Dogs\"Sennah Yee has written a book full of wit and fire.  This is a work to read and reread.  The individual pieces build on each other to reveal the fractured self beneath and the ways the Western world fractures people who `look like Mulan. ' A fierce new literary voice.  Don't miss this one. \"- Matthew Salesses, author of The Hundred-Year Flood\"At first glance, it might not seem as if How Do I Look? is about survival.  But in each of these brief vignettes, Sennah Yee is tested over \u0026amp; over again by white supremacy, racism, fetishization, heteronormativity \u0026amp; all the other worst parts of Western culture that constantly deluge the screens \u0026amp; scenes of our upbringing.  And yet, Sennah Yee survives every microaggression.  Sennah Yee has teflon in her blood \u0026amp; How Do I Look? is sparkling sunset over Liberty City \u0026amp; absolute proof that she is bulletproof. \"- Orchid Cugini, author of I'm Just Happy To Be Here\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310423585141,"sku":"9781988355085","price":10.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781988355085.jpg?v=1762814750","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781988355085","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}