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The reason I jump : the inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism / Naoki Higashida ; translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell.

Higashida, Naoki, 1992- (author.). Yoshida, KA, (translator.). Mitchell, David (David Stephen), (translator.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780812985153
ISBN: 081298515X
Physical Description: xvii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: Random House trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House, 2016.
Copyright: ©2007

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes Reader's guide with a postscript and interview by David Mitchell.

Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know.