The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism

Paperback edition of Higashida's memoir, which was written when he was 13. He explains the world of an autistic teen to the reader. Translated from the Japanese by acclaimed British novelist David Mitchell and his wife K.A. Yoshida, who have an autistic son themselves. '...its dignity and stoicism are sometimes almost unbearably moving.' Marcus Berkmann, 'Daily Mail'