{"product_id":"the-night-parade","title":"The Night Parade","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the groundbreaking tradition of \u003ci\u003eIn the Dream House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Schizophrenias\u003c\/i\u003e, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Are these the only two stories? The one where you defeat your monster, and the other where you succumb to it?'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJami 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrustrated 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDivided 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Parade\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eThe Night Parade\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning excavation of personal and collective histories, filled with the endless alchemy of storytelling. Jami Nakamura Lin writes with meditative precision and expansive empathy, challenging and reaffirming what communal stories can make possible. Exploring the many worlds that flourish beyond certain knowledge, this boundary-blurring memoir finds power in the undefinable. It reveals to us that the fracturing of a story can be beautifully fruitful. Teeming with language that is transformative and fully embodied, and gorgeously illustrated by Cori Nakamura Lin, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Parade\u003c\/i\u003e is a generous and abundant feast for our living and our dead, our salvaged lineages, and our continuing stories.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-K-Ming Chang, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBestiary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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. The haunting illustrations by her sister, Cori Nakamura Lin, are a potent reminder that no one is self-authored. We all collaborate to become ourselves. Serpentine, polyphonic, and stunningly textured, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Parade\u003c\/i\u003e positively pulses with life.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fact of A Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A gorgeous invocation of the magic-haunted spaces between lived experience and folkloric traditions, between the living and the dead, between memory and story. I loved \u003ci\u003eThe Night Parade\u003c\/i\u003e.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Kelly Link, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGet in Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Jami Nakamura Lin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516716548157,"sku":null,"price":42.75,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781914484070.jpg?v=1787567717","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/the-night-parade","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}