Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump

The Reason I Jump: One Boy’s Voice From The Silence of Autism

Naoki Higashida (translated by LA Yoshida, introduced by David Mitchell)

Random House

Naoki Higashida wrote this book when he was 13. It’s his meditation on his life - he suffers from autism, though to say he suffers is to play into the stereotypes he dismisses via a thoughtful, dream-like expla…