{"id":19979,"date":"2025-04-17T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T01:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=19979"},"modified":"2025-04-17T21:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T01:38:24","slug":"avan-jogia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/avan-jogia\/","title":{"rendered":"Avan Jogia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Avan Jogia is a Canadian actor, writer, director and musician. His father is Indian-British and his mother is English-Irish. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (Poems of Rage, Love, Sex and Sadness)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gallery Books, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From the Simon & Schuster Canada website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Avan Jogia grew up as a teen idol. He stumbled into the spotlight during the birth of the internet, the early days of Instagram and Twitter, before everyone online was a star. He spent his time in that spotlight writing, observing the cult of celebrity, the hilarity, the absurdity, and sometimes sinister side of being idolized before you\u2019ve even had the chance to decide for yourself who you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, in his most revealing and honest work to date, he has assembled a book of poems as an act of self-dissection. Part boozy lovesick rage and part personal reflection on the nature of fame, Autopsy<\/em>(of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob) <\/em>is a sharp, tantalizing collection of poems examining Avan\u2019s relationship with ego, idolatry, love as an act of worship, rage as an act of prayer, and sadness as confession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through vivid imagery (and sometimes startling honesty) Avan cuts himself open and observes the false gods he has worshipped, the ways he has sinned, and exhumes a version of himself that looks like someone we all know: a person searching for the means to cure pain, mend the wounds of insecurity, and satiate cravings for love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mixed Forms (Poetry and Stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mixed Feelings: Poems and Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

From actor\u00a0Avan\u00a0Jogia\u00a0comes a\u00a0raw and moving collection of poetry, stories, and art about living as a mixed-race person\u00a0in a world increasingly fixated on racial identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\u00a0Mixed Feelings<\/em>, Avan Jogia explores his complicated emotions around race, identity, religion, and family through poetry and imagery. Drawing on the author’s own life story as well as interviews he’s conducted with friends and strangers, Mixed Feelings serves as a dialogue starter for difficult topics that now, more than ever, need to be discussed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Avan Jogia is a Canadian actor, writer, director and musician. His father is Indian-British and his mother is English-Irish. Poetry Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (Poems of Rage, Love, Sex and Sadness) Gallery Books, 2025. Publisher’s Synopsis (From the Simon … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19979","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19985,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19979\/revisions\/19985"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}