Harmless Like You
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
(Author)
Description
Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin. At its heart is Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and her struggle with her decision to leave her two-year-old son, Jay. As an adult, Jay sets out to find his mother and confront her abandonment.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
July 17, 2018
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.4 X 0.9 X 8.2 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393355741
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About the Author
ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN is an American and British novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her first novel Harmless Like You was a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Great Read. In the UK it won the Author's Club First Novel Award, a Betty Trask award, and was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize. Her work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, the Guardian, and the Paris Review, among other places.
Reviews
Buchanan's prose is lyrical and evocative.... After all, Buchanan reminds us, the ethereal dreams of the 1960s shaped the all-too-solid contours of the world we inhabit today.
Buchanan writes with beauty and sensitivity about what it means to be an artist, a parent, and an outsider in a foreign culture.
[T]here are so many mature notions of patience, sacrifice, and terrible sadness that it's startling to realize how young the author of the book is.
This elegant and moving novel burns slowly, building in intensity as it develops to explore the subjects of identity, alienation and desire.
[Buchanan] find[s] ways of depicting difference, painting characters from numerous races and cultures.... Her ways of infusing a character's culture have more to do with habits and perspective than with pigeonholes, making this the rare debut that does not smack of received knowledge.
A relentlessly honest book, capturing some of the ugliest and under-represented facets of life, in rich, elegant prose.
Harmless Like You is a beautifully written, many-layered novel that, at its core, tells the personal story of a mother and a son--a struggling artist and the child she left behind in pursuit of that art.
Harmless Like You is a refreshing, bold book about understatement.
Buchanan writes with beauty and sensitivity about what it means to be an artist, a parent, and an outsider in a foreign culture.
[T]here are so many mature notions of patience, sacrifice, and terrible sadness that it's startling to realize how young the author of the book is.
This elegant and moving novel burns slowly, building in intensity as it develops to explore the subjects of identity, alienation and desire.
[Buchanan] find[s] ways of depicting difference, painting characters from numerous races and cultures.... Her ways of infusing a character's culture have more to do with habits and perspective than with pigeonholes, making this the rare debut that does not smack of received knowledge.
A relentlessly honest book, capturing some of the ugliest and under-represented facets of life, in rich, elegant prose.
Harmless Like You is a beautifully written, many-layered novel that, at its core, tells the personal story of a mother and a son--a struggling artist and the child she left behind in pursuit of that art.
Harmless Like You is a refreshing, bold book about understatement.
