The Night Parade

"The Night Parade" is an illustrated, genre-bending memoir that explores mental illness, grief, and remembrance through the lens of Japanese mythology and folklore. Jami Nakamura Lin shares her personal journey with bipolar disorder, childhood stories of supernatural creatures, and her reflections on how fear of difference shapes identity. Structured in four acts inspired by Japanese narrative traditions, the book offers a poetic and textured examination of living with the things that haunt us.