{"product_id":"the-night-parade-a-speculative-memoir-0063213230","title":"The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0063213230\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lin, Jami Nakamura\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Most Anticipated Book by Poets \u0026amp; 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 BodyAre 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 fathers 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 shed 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51529798156576,"sku":"NEW0063213230","price":17.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81KZhwryPEL.jpg?v=1777264553","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-night-parade-a-speculative-memoir-0063213230","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}