{"product_id":"9781914484070-the-night-parade","title":"The Night Parade","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea speculative memoir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the groundbreaking tradition of \u003cem\u003eIn the Dream House\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Collected Schizophrenias\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAre these the only two stories? The one where you defeat your monster, and the other where you succumb to it?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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, \u003cem\u003eThe Night Parade\u003c\/em\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40935513358433,"sku":"9781914484070","price":19.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32358063.jpg?v=1737194100","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781914484070-the-night-parade","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}