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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?
"Jami Nakamura Lin has reinvented the genre of memoir, weaving an
intricate braid of fable, memory, art, cultural legacy, and legend
into a gorgeous tapestry of the stories that made her. Serpentine,
polyphonic, and stunningly textured, The Night Parade positively
pulses with life." -- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, award-winning author
of The Fact of a Body 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. 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?
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