A Most Anticipated Book by Poets Writers, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, The Millions, Library Journal, Book Riot, Debutiful, and many more In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated 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. 'Jami Nakamura Lin has reinvented the genre of memoir.... Serpentine, polyphonic, and stunningly textured, The Night Parade positively pulses with life. ' Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, award-winning author of The Fact of a Body 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 for reasons outside of her control. As a young woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, much of her adolescence was marked by periods of extreme rage and an array of psychiatric treatments, and her relationships suffered as a result, especially as her father's cancer grasped hold of.