The Night Parade
A Speculative Memoir
New York, NY : Mariner Books, [2023]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 340 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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 thelens of figures from Japanese, Taiwanese and Okinawan legend.
Contents:
Ki. The dragon king ; Automythologies I -- Shō. The rage ; The Temple of the Holy Ghost ; The offing ; Possession ; Skin, a love story -- Ten. The twilight hours ; The night parade ; The hour of the ox -- Ketsu. Mourningtime ; The naming ; The year of the rat ; In the whirlpools ; Automythologies II (reprise) ; The three corpses.
Subjects:
Lin, Jami Nakamura.
People with bipolar disorder -- Biography.
Japanese Americans -- Biography.
Taiwanese Americans -- Biography.
Mental illness.
Grief.
Ghosts.
Yōkai (Japanese folklore)
Legends -- Japan.
Legends -- Taiwan.
Legends -- Japan -- Okinawa Island.
Recovery movement.
Fear.
Lin, Jami Nakamura.
People with bipolar disorder -- Biography.
Japanese Americans -- Biography.
Taiwanese Americans -- Biography.
Mental illness.
Grief.
Ghosts.
Yōkai (Japanese folklore)
Legends -- Japan.
Legends -- Taiwan.
Legends -- Japan -- Okinawa Island.
Recovery movement.
Fear.
ISBN:
9780063213234
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Lin, Jami | Wheatley (Shandon) | Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-340).