Jami Nakamura Lin
Author
Description
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
340 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In this genre-bending and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the sensation of being caught between realms, the author, after the death of her father, grapples with her bipolar disorder and sets out to interrogate the very notion of recovery through the lens of figures from Japanese, Taiwanese and Okinawan legend.