Harmless Like You

Harmless Like You

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Weight0.454 kg
Dimensions2.2 × 13.9 × 22.3 cm
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1473638321

About The Author

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

Impressive . . . Rowan Hisayo Buchanan [is] a 27-year-old with a very big literary career in front of her . . . Slick and intelligent… it's the subtle brilliance of Buchanan's back-to-front tale that really left me reeling.

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An exciting new voice in fiction captures the fragile personal histories of an estranged mother and son.

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'What 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 UNSWORTH, author of Animals'Sublime – calm, profound, beautifully controlled and with startling splashes of colour. 'CHRIS CLEAVE, author of The Other Hand'With luminous prose, unflinching honesty, and compelling narrative drive . . . HARMLESS LIKE YOU is a stunning debut that reads like the work of a seasoned novelist.'JUDITH MITCHELL, author of A Reunion of Ghosts'Rowan 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 Tooth

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