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Book Title

I'm a Fan

Subtitle
A Novel
Author 1
Sheena Patel
Body
I stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am.

Sheena Patel’s incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator describing her involvement in a seemingly unequal romantic relationship. With a clear and unforgiving eye, she dissects the behavior of all involved, herself included, and makes startling connections between the power struggles at the heart of human relationships and those of the wider world. I’m a Fan offers a devastating critique of class, social media, patriarchy’s hold on us, and our cultural obsession with status and how that status is conveyed.

In this unforgettable debut, Patel announces herself as a dynamic, commanding new voice in literature, capable of rendering a rollercoaster of emotions and experiences viscerally on the page. Sex, brutality, politics, work, art, tenderness, humor—Patel tackles them all while making the reader complicit in the inescapable trap of fandom that seems to define the modern condition.

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List Price
$17.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-64445-245-5
Format
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
Publication Date
Subject
Subject
Pages
Pages
216
Trim Size
Trim Size
5.5 x 8.25
Keynote
“A fast, fizzing cherry bomb of a debut” (The Observer [UK]) about power, intimacy, and the internet

About the Author

Sheena  Patel
Credit: Salam Zaied
  Sheena Patel is a writer and assistant director for film and TV who was born and raised in North West London. She is part of the poetry collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE and was named as one of the Observer’s “Best Debut Novelists of 2022.” I’m a Fan was longlisted for the Women’s Prize, shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize and the Jhalak Prize, and won the British Book Award in the Discover category.
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Upcoming Events

Sheena Patel (I'M A FAN) reading and in conversation with Jenny Jackson and Joe Keohane (writing as S.E. Boyd) as part of "Eat (with) the Rich," presented by Brooklyn Book Festival

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Center for Brooklyn History in Brooklyn, NYview map

Sheena Patel reading and in conversation about I'M A FAN, presented by Skylight Books

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Location:
Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CAview map
This event is free and open to the public. Click here for more details. Copies of I'm a Fan are available for purchase at Skylight Books.

Sheena Patel reading and in conversation with Naomi Kanakia about I'M A FAN, presented by The Ruby + Green Apple Books

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Green Apple Bookstore in San Francisco, CAview map
Open to members of The Ruby, this event will be hosted at The Ruby. Please click here for more information. Copies of I'm a Fan are available for purchase from Green Apple Books.

Sheena Patel (I'M A FAN) reading and in conversation with JD Beltran, presented by Litquake and the American Bookbinders Museum

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American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco, CAview map
This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $5-10. Click here for more details

Praise

  • “A queasy, ruthless novel of sexual obsession and self-destruction in the preening, perfectible age of social media. . . . I’m a Fan [is] an unsettling, unmissable read.”—Jamie Hood, Vulture
  • “Sheena Patel eviscerates the rich kid art world, as exemplified by a particularly toxic ex. It’s written in a speedy, fragmented internal monologue, which makes for an absolutely propulsive read.”—Maggie Lange, Bustle
  • “While I think many readers can relate to the unnamed protagonist—she’s vulnerable, grouchy, sweet, audacious, hungry, lonely—she also felt uniquely real to me, an actual person, and I loved her by the end. I read I’m a Fan in one and a half sittings.”—Ottessa Moshfegh, Bomb
  • “The corrosive logic of one-sided relationships is the subject of this dryly funny polemical novel, told from the perspective of a young woman obsessed with her married lover and his ex-girlfriend. . . . A mixture of loathing and desire.”—The New Yorker
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