It felt like evidence that we hadn’t lost our son. This book arrived in the middle of that and, God, it was a lifesaver.Īt a practical level but also at a more existential level. Our four-year-old was hitting his head repeatedly on the kitchen floor and we had no clue why. There were startling overlaps between Naoki and our son’s behaviours – plus pretty persuasive explanations for those behaviours. My wife ordered this book from Japan, began reading it at the kitchen table and verbally translating bits for me. We had no idea what was happening in his head or how to help him. My son had been fairly recently diagnosed. What was your experience of reading The Reason I Jump for the first time? Written by Naoki Higashida when he was 13, the book became an international bestseller and has now been turned into an award-winning documentary also featuring Mitchell. Mitchell translated the autism memoir The Reason I Jump from Japanese to English with his wife, Keiko Yoshida. He has also written opera libretti and screenplays. He has been twice shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, for number9dream and Cloud Atlas. He published the first of his nine novels, Ghostwritten, aged 30. A uthor David Mitchell, 52, was born in Southport, grew up in Malvern and now lives near Cork in Ireland.
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