Summer reading: Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 by Naoki Higashida

Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism
by Naoki Higashida
Translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell
Knopf Canada
240 pages | 29.95
Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 is the follow-up to Naoki Higashida’s surprise bestseller, The Reason I Jump, a book he wrote at age 13. Higashida is an autistic, non-verbal person — his place on the autism spectrum so severe he has no verbal communication capabilities.
In Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8, Higashida now