The night parade : a speculative memoir
Nakamura Lin, Jami2023
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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 yokai 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.
Main title:
The night parade : a speculative memoir / Jami Nakamura Lin ; illustrated by Cori Nakamura Lin.
Author:
Nakamura Lin, Jami, authorLin, Cori Nakamura, illustrator
Imprint:
London : Scribe UK, 2023.
Collation:
352 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781914484070 (hbk)
Dewey class:
616.8950092
LC class:
RC516
Local class:
616.895
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3629229
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