Imagine a book where you are the director of the movie and the author is the screenwriter. That's Dream Pop Origami.

Dream Pop Origami is a choose-your-own-adventure memoir about love and heartbreak, travel and Asian American masculinity, language and metamorphosis.

This experimental memoir combines personal essays with autobiographical lists about growing up as a mixed-race Japanese American teenager in small-town America.

It's about falling in love in the big city, understanding and negotiating cultural hyphenation, traveling to Japan for the first time as a Nisei, and living in South America, the West Coast, the American Midwest, and West Africa.

Dream Pop Origami is textual choreography between author and reader, written in a series of intersecting circles, vignettes, confessions, and memories with an infectious love for the world that is larger than life.