Harmless Like You

Name: Harmless Like You
Brand: Hodder & Stoughton
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★★★★★

Paperback | English

By (author): Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

''''This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration.'''' LORRIE MOORE

Written in startlingly beautiful prose, HARMLESS LIKE YOU is set across New York, Berlin and Connecticut, following the stories of Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki''''s son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront his mother who abandoned him when he was only two years old.

HARMLESS LIKE YOU is an unforgettable novel about the complexities of identity, art, adolescent friendships and familial bonds, offering a unique exploration of love, loneliness and reconciliation.

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Format: Paperback
Weight: 340g
Dimensions: 137 x 215mm
Publication Date: 11 Aug 2016
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781473638334

About Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is a Japanese-British-Chinese-American writer. Her debut novel Harmless Like You was published in 2016 by Sceptre and won the Author''''s Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask award. It was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize the Books Are My Bag Breakthrough Author Award and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan was the recipient of a Margins fellowship for the Asian American Writers Workshop has a BA from Columbia University an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently working on a PhD at the University of East Anglia. Her writing has appeared in the short story anthology How Much the Heart Can Hold (Sceptre) the Guardian New York Times Granta The Paris Review and The Atlantic among other places. She has lived in London New York Tokyo Madison and Norwich.rowanhisayo.com