About the Author: Naoki Higashida
Naoki Higashida (æ±ç”° 直樹 Higashida Naoki) is the Japanese author of The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism. He was born in 1992 and diagnosed with autism when he was five. He was 13 years old when he wrote the book which was published in English in 2013. Reviews have been mixed, both celebrating the accomplishment of a mentally and emotionally challenged young author and expressing discomfort with the involvement of Higashida's communications facilitator (his mother) and English language translators (Keiko Yoshida and her husband David Mitchell).
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Other books by Naoki Higashida
Find the best price forFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight
Naoki Higashida, KA Yoshida, David Mitchell
Hardcover, Published in Jul 2017 by Random House
ISBN10: 0812997395 | ISBN13: 9780812997392
The author of the bestselling phenomenon The Reason I Jump returns with a unique memoir about life as a young adult with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, who translated this book with his wife, KA Yoshida, this extraordinary new work explores education, identity, family, society, and personal growth, opening a window into the mind of its nonverbal author and providing remarkable insights into autism in general.
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