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The Night Parade - a speculative memoir
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In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The
Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir
that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyō — the
Night Parade of One Hundred Demons — to shift the cultural
narrative around mental illness, grief, and remembrance. 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 Japanese Taiwanese American woman with undiagnosed bipolar
disorder, her adolescence was marked by periods of extreme rage and
self-medicating, an ever-evolving array of psychiatric treatments,
and her relationships with those she loved — especially her
father — suffered as a result. Frustrated with the tidy arc of
the typical mental illness memoir, the kind whose trajectory leads
toward being ‘better’, Lin sought comfort in the Japanese
folklore she’d loved as a child, tales of supernatural creatures
known to terrify in the night. Through the lens of the yōkai and
other East Asian mythology, she set out to interrogate the Western
notion of conflict and resolution, grief, loss, mental illness, and
the myriad ways fear of difference shapes who we are as a
people. Divided into four acts in the traditional Japanese
narrative structure and featuring stunning watercolour
illustrations, Jami Nakamura Lin has crafted an innovative,
genre-bending, and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the
sensation of being caught between worlds. Braiding her experience
of mental illness, the death of her father, and other haunted
topics with the folkloric tradition, The Night Parade shines a
light into dark corners in search of a new way, driven by the
question: How do we learn to live with the things that haunt
us?
General
Imprint: |
Scribe Publications
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Jami Nakamura Lin
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Illustrators: |
Cori Nakamura Lin
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-914484-07-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-914484-07-X |
Barcode: |
9781914484070 |
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