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The Author of Cloud Atlas on Autism, His Son, and the Japanese Teen Who Inspired Him
The following is David Mitchell’s introduction to The Reason I Jump , by Naoki Higashida, out now from Random House. Naoki Higashida. Photo courtesy of Miki Higashida The 13-year-old author of The Reason I Jump invites you, his reader, to imagine a daily life in which your faculty of speech is taken…