Harmless Like You
$32.64
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2017
Summary
Harmless Like You: A Fractured Family, a Lifetime of Secrets
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 BAMB READERS AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH AUTHOR
‘This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration.’ LORRIE MOORE
When the meaning of ‘home’ is complicated, we strive for a sense of connection.
Yet sometimes being alone feels like the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473638341 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473638348 |
| Author: | Rowan Hisayo Buchanan |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 149mm x 24mm |
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This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration. - LORRIE MOORE
This beautiful novel explores creativity and the complicated relationships between parents and children. - PsychologiesSublime - calm, profound, beautifully controlled and with startling splashes of colour. - CHRIS CLEAVEWhat a beautiful book. So measured and confident for a debut - really impressive stuff. The fine brushwork of a meticulous student of the human condition, set within the rich, widescreen drama of a bold and visionary storyteller. It’s like staring at a stone at the bottom of a very clear, but slowly shifting, lake. An enchanting and deftly layered exploration of desire, self-identity and belonging. - EMMA JANE UNSWORTHRowan Hisayo Buchanan’s elegant, accomplished debut novel delves into complicated familial relationships and examines how yearning for a sense of belonging and a compulsion to make art demand all sorts of uneasy life choices … rich and vivid. - ExpressImpressive debut … sensitively explores loneliness and the desire to belong against the need for freedom, both personal and artistic. - Bookseller, Editor’s PickRowan Hisayo Buchanan’s passionate, gorgeously-written debut novel investigates harmlessness and harm, power and vulnerability, free will and fate. - ELLIS AVERY, author of The Family ToothHARMLESS LIKE YOU is the story of a mother and her son, but it is too an ode to the outsider, a Japanese-American artist who must also create her own, unprecedented identity in 1960s New York. Moving from Manhattan to Berlin, from the Vietnam War to the new millennium, Buchanan’s debut explores the thin line between attachment and abandonment, love and pain, selfishness and sacrifice. With kaleidoscopic prose and characters all too human, HARMLESS LIKE YOU is an unforgettable debut, as rich in darkness and light as it is in color. - CHLOE BENJAMIN, author of The Anatomy of DreamsAbout The Author
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is a Japanese-British-Chinese-American writer. She 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, among other places, Granta, Guernica and The Harvard Review and she received a Margins fellowship for the Asian American Writers Workshop. She has lived in London, New York, Tokyo, Madison and Norwich.
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