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Twitter, and Blue Sky. So my guest today is Jamie Nakamura Lynn, author of a new memoir entitled The Night Parade.

That feels simple to me. It feels easy to understand that kind of grief, whereas the anticipatory grief felt so layered in with this fear and this anxiety and this, am I spending enough time

with my father? Like, how do I manage all these different things together? And of course,

that anticipatory grief is mitigated by the fact that my father was still alive. So you get to

spend that time with him and I would give anything to be able to spend that time with him again.

But in terms of the feeling itself of anticipatory grief versus this retroactive grief,

the anticipatory one felt much more complicated and confusing and difficult.

All right, that was Jamie Nakamura-Linn, author of a new memoir entitled The Night Parade,

available for Mariner Books.

The Night Parade is the official November pick of the Other People Book Club.

If you would like to sign up for the book club, you can do that over at the show's official website, otherpL.com.

The night parade bills itself as a speculative memoir. It is a genre-bending and deeply moving

book that mirrors the sensation of being caught between realms.

Jamie Nakamura-Linn braids her experiences of mental illness, the death of her father, the grieving process,

and other haunted topics with storytelling tradition.

In the night parade, she is exploring some of the darker corners of the

human experience, driven by the question, how do we learn to live with the things that haunt us?

My conversation with Jamie Nakamura-Lin is coming up in just a bit.

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