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'"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 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 the mother who abandoned him when he was only two years old. The novel opens when Yuki is sixteen and her father is posted back to Japan. Though she and her family have been living as outsiders in New York City, Yuki opts to stay, intoxicated by…
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7 editions- Other · English · 2020Norton & Company Limited, W. W. · 320 pages · 9780393355741
- Other · English · 2017W. W. Norton & Company · 308 pages · 9781324000747
- Other · English · 2017Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 256 pages · 9781324000754
- Other · English · 2017Hodder & Stoughton · 320 pages · 9781473638341
- Other · English · 2016Hodder & Stoughton · 9781473638358
- Other · English · 2016Hodder & Stoughton · 272 pages · 9781473638327
Mothers and sonsAdult childrenJapaneseLoss (Psychology)FictionFiction, family lifeMothers and sons, fictionNew york (n.y.), fiction