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Harmless Like You
Critic Reviews
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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.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jul 17th, 2018
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.90in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9780393355741
- Categories: • Literary• Coming of Age• Asian American & Pacific Islander
About the Author
Buchanan, Rowan Hisayo: - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is a British-Japanese-Chinese-American novelist. She received a BA from Columbia University and currently resides in the UK. Harmless Like You won an Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. It was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a 2017 NPR Great Read.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
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.-- "New York Times Book Review"
Buchanan writes with beauty and sensitivity about what it means to be an artist, a parent, and an outsider in a foreign culture.-- "New York Journal of Books"
[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.-- "Los Angeles Review of Books"
In Harmless Like You... characters look for ways to reconcile themselves with their histories, though in vastly different and sometimes opposing ways.-- "Guardian"
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.-- "Bustle"
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is only 26 and [Harmless Like You] is a stunning debut that would make a writer four times her years proud.-- "Elle Canada"
This elegant and moving novel burns slowly, building in intensity as it develops to explore the subjects of identity, alienation and desire.-- "Daily Mail"
[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.-- "Literary Hub"
A relentlessly honest book, capturing some of the ugliest and under-represented facets of life, in rich, elegant prose.-- "Irish Independent"
Harmless Like You is a refreshing, bold book about understatement.-- "Sunday Telegraph"