In “I’m a Fan,” Sheena Patel’s unnamed narrator fixates on a man she can’t have and obsesses over his influencer ex-girlfriend.
,” which also follows a woman’s infatuation with a well-regarded male artist that is initially propelled by her admiration of his work. In both books, the man’s genius does not extend to his emotions, and the protagonist must work around his constant evasions, restlessly conjuring new meaning from the same meager signs. Both are perceptive about how this agitation can feel like progress, that even going in circles is a kind of movement, a way of keeping stagnation at bay.
“I’m a Fan” also has the hallmarks of so much first-person writing online: messy, indulgent prose and the impulse to rove wildly between disparate subject matters.
Here and elsewhere, Patel’s prose is bloated and overwrought; one sometimes gets the impression that we’re expected to applaud her for merely having made a comparison, not for what that comparison reveals. Even the implicit connection between fandom and romantic infatuation set up by the title seems underdeveloped.Similarly arbitrary are sections about real-life art exhibitions — Abbas Zahedi’s “Ouranophobia SW3,” Martine Sym’s “Ugly Plymouths” — that mostly reiterate the shows’ features.
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