The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir

Name: The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir
Brand: Mariner Books
SKU: 0063213230
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ISBN: 9780063213234

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07 Nov, 2023

By Jami Nakamura Lin (Author)

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ISBN-10:

0063213230

ISBN-13:

9780063213234

Publisher

Mariner Books

No.of Pages

352

Dimensions

8.4 X 5.5 X 1.3 inches

Description

A Most Anticipated Book by Poets & Writers - The Boston Globe - San Francisco Chronicle - Los Angeles Times - The Millions - Library Journal - Book Riot - Debutiful - and many more!

In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo--the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons--to shift the cultural narrative around mental illness, grief, and remembrance.

"Jami Nakamura Lin has reinvented the genre of memoir. . . . Serpentine, polyphonic, and stunningly textured, The Night Parade positively pulses with life." -- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, award-winning author of The Fact of a Body

Are these the only two stories? The one, where you defeat your monster, and the other, where you succumb to it?

Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her life feeling monstrous for reasons outside of her control. As a young woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, much of her adolescence was marked by periods of extreme rage and an array of psychiatric treatments, and her relationships suffered as a result, especially as her father's cancer grasped hold of their family.

As she grew older and learned to better manage her episodes, Lin became frustrated with the familiar pattern she found in mental illness and grief narratives, and their focus on recovery. She sought comfort in the stories she'd loved as a child--tales of ghostly creatures known to terrify in the night. Through the lens of the yokai and other figures from Japanese, Taiwanese, and Okinawan legend, she set out to interrogate the very notion of recovery and the myriad ways fear of difference shapes who we are as a people.

Featuring stunning illustrations by her sister, Cori Nakamura Lin, and divided into the four acts of a traditional Japanese narrative structure, The Night Parade is a genre-bending and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the sensation of being caught between realms. Braiding her experience of mental illness, the death of her father, the grieving process, and other haunted topics with storytelling tradition, Jami Nakamura Lin shines a light into dark corners, driven by a question: How do we learn to live with the things that haunt us?

Product Details

ISBN-10

: 0063213230

ISBN-13

: 9780063213234

Publisher

: Mariner Books

Publication date

: 07 Nov, 2023

About the Author

Jami Nakamura Lin -

Jami Nakamura Lin is a Japanese Taiwanese Okinawan American writer, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Catapult, and Electric Literature, among other publications. She has received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts/Japan