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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2017-02-28
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781324000747
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324000740
ISBN-13
9781324000747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224351461
Product Key Features
Book Title
Harmless like You : a Novel
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Family Life, Coming of Age, Literary, Asian American, Historical
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-045208
Reviews
Shuttling deftly between mother and son, Rowan HisayoBuchanan''''s passionate, gorgeously-written debut novel investigatesharmlessness and harm, power and vulnerability, free will and fate., Rowan Hisayo Buchanan writes with beauty and sensitivity about what it means to be an artist, a parent, and an outsider in a foreign culture., Buchanan's prose isvisceral, startling and mind-bendingly gorgeous. . . .this is definitely worthreading for the beauty and originality of the prose, for the questions Buchananraises about art and heritage, and for the characters who are sometimes asmaddening as they can be magnificent., Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's debut is a beautifully textured novel. . . Yuki'sstory feels compellingly immediate, as prickly and unpredictable as itsprotagonist. . . . Her thoughts are brilliantly rendered in sentences thatcurl up into questions. . . . Through Yuki, the novel probes the complicatedpolitics of victimhood., 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., "This is a book I've been waiting for since before its author was born. And yet I could never have predicted it. It is a book about beauty and belonging, suffering and being lost, a book that takes into account history, the implications of separation and disorientation. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan cleaves to her idiosyncrasies, foregoing whitewash in favor of her own glittering vision. She is "the seer, not the seen." The result is a gift--unassuming, elegant, vividly prismatic. Not since Sigrid Nunez's A Feather on the Breath of God has a book shone such a moving light on multiracial, interracial, and transnational relationships. Regardless of your flesh tone, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's study of color--its history, its strangeness, its allure, and its consequences--will dazzle you.", Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's debut is a beautifully textured novel. . . Yuki'sstory feels compellingly immediate, as prickly and unpredictable as itsprotagonist., Buchanan has a knack formining the murky depths of what it means to identify as an artist, parent andlover. The journey is sometimes tender, often agonizing--and everything inbetween., Harmlessis a relentlessly honest book, capturing some of the ugliest andunder-represented facets of life, in rich, elegant prose., With beautiful descriptions and a tightly woven plot,the characters in this novel are worth spending as much time with as you can., 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., In Harmless Like You. . .characters look for ways to reconcile themselves with their histories, though in vastly different and sometimes opposing ways., In tracing the stories of Yukiko (or Yuki) and herson, Jay, this debut novel also explores deeper issues of identity. AuthorRowan Hisayo Buchanan writes with beauty and sensitivity about what it means tobe an artist, a parent, and an outsider in a foreign culture., This beautiful novel explores creativity and thecomplicated relationships between parents and children., In Harmless Like You, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan tells the parallel stories of Yuki, a Japanese teenager living on her own in 1960s' New York, and Jay, her abandoned son who, in the 1980s, questions the family life he's chosen. With luminous prose, unflinching honesty, and compelling narrative drive, Buchanan examines Yuki and Jay's respective quests for companionship and safety and meaning, all the while asking, What is home? What does the face of love look like? To what extent should we honor the artistic and creative? Which is more dangerous: loneliness or intimacy? At once harrowing and reassuring, rash and generous, impetuously youthful and imbued with the wisdom that comes with perspective and distance, Harmless Like You is a stunning debut that reads like the work of a seasoned novelist., Shuttling deftly between mother and son, Rowan HisayoBuchanan's passionate, gorgeously-written debut novel investigatesharmlessness and harm, power and vulnerability, free will and fate., This elegant and moving novel burns slowly, building in intensity as itdevelops to explore the subjects of identity, alienation and desire., Moving from Manhattan to Berlin, fromthe Vietnam War to the new millennium, Buchanan''''''''s debut explores the thin linebetween 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 darknessand light as it is in color., In Harmless Like You, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan tells the parallel stories of Yuki, a Japanese teenager living on her own in 1960s' New York, and Jay, her abandoned son who, in the 1980s, questions the family life he's chosen. With luminous prose, unflinching honesty, and compelling narrative drive, Buchanan examines Yuki and Jay's respective quests for companionship and safety and meaning, all the while asking, What is home? What does the face of love look like? To what extent should we honor the artistic and creative? Which is more dangerous: loneliness or intimacy? At once harrowing and reassuring, rash and generous, impetuously youthful and imbued with the wisdom that comes with perspective and distance, Harmless Like You is a stunning debut that reads like the work of a seasoned novelist., The kind of novel our century deserves--a brilliantly conceived, beautifully written transnational novel about multiracial identity, motherhood, the struggle to be an artist, and the struggle to belong to your family. This marks the debut of an important new voice in fiction., Buchanan''s prose is lyrical and evocative... [She] reminds us, the ethereal dreams of the 1960s shaped the all-too-solid contours of the world we inhabit today., Whata beautiful book. So measured and confident for a debut - really impressivestuff.Thefine brushwork of a meticulous student of the human condition (and I love theuse of all the painting/colour descriptions - so effective) set within therich, widescreen drama of a bold and visionary storyteller. It''''s like staringat a stone at the bottom of a very clear, but slowly shifting, lake. Anenchanting and deftly layered exploration of desire, self-identity andbelonging., [Buchanan] find[s] ways of depicting difference,painting characters from numerous races and cultures. . . . Her ways ofinfusing a character's culture have more to do with habits and perspective thanwith pigeonholes, making this the rare debut that does not smack of receivedknowledge., Buchanan's skill in bringing her characters to life is superb. Yuki joins the growing list of female protagonists who are believable, relatable but not likable. . . . Buchanan interrogates the ways pain is paid forward, how one generation repeats the foibles of another so inexorably that they seem inherited through the genes. She also wants the reader to know that the messes, like so many autosomal recessive disorders, are at least partially fixable. Harmless Like You is a lovely debut., Harmless Like You is anything but harmless: this is a fierce, eerily knowing debut about art and its ambitions, love and its transforming power, and the unbearable gravity of family ties. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan has arrived., Elegant, accomplished debut. . . . Although this is a darknovel, it is also as rich and vivid as the chapter headings' descriptions ofpaint colours., [T]here are so many mature notions of patience, sacrifice, and terrible sadness thatit's startling to realize how young the author of the book is. . . . Buchananmust be, like Yuki herself, an old soul. But unlike Yuki, there is no doubtabout how good an artist she is, for this book demonstrates that she is anexcellent one., [I]ntricate, layered, and complex. . . [Harmless Like You] paints a vivid picture of an unmoored womanwhose emotional disquiet led her to become both victim and victimizer. A highlynuanced, understated, and beautifully written debut., "In Harmless Like You...characters look for ways to reconcile themselves with their histories, though in vastly different and sometimes opposing ways."--Guardian", [Buchanan's] subtle debut novel is carefully constructed with a lightness of touch. The most striking thing about Harmless Like You is the way in which all of the different elements from the dialogue to the tiniest details of character development are all so well measured and balanced against each other., Buchanan's prose isvisceral, startling and mind-bendingly gorgeous. . . .worthreading for the beauty and originality of the prose, for the questions Buchananraises about art and heritage, and for the characters who are sometimes asmaddening as they can be magnificent., A haunting, evocative meditation on art, familial bonds, and the longing for a sense of home and self. The secret desires and heartaches described in her book are so visceral and real they lingered in my body afterwards like ghosts, as though her characters' memories became my own., HarmlessLike You is the story of a mother and her son, but it is too anode to the outsider, a Japanese-American artist who must also create her own,unprecedented identity in 1960s New York. Moving from Manhattan to Berlin, fromthe Vietnam War to the new millennium, Buchanan's debut explores the thin linebetween 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 darknessand light as it is in color., Written in startlingly beautiful prose. . . Harmless Like You is a suspenseful novel about the complexities of identity, art, adolescent friendships, and familial bonds that asks--and ultimately answers--how does a mother desert her son?, Impressive. . . Rowan Hisayo Buchanan [is] a 27-year-oldwith a very big literary career in front of her. . . . Slick and intelligent. . .it'sthe subtle brilliance of Buchanan's back-to-front tale that really left mereeling. , Buchanan's prose is lyrical and evocative... [She] reminds us, the ethereal dreams of the 1960s shaped the all-too-solid contours of the world we inhabit today., Whata beautiful book. So measured and confident for a debut - really impressivestuff.Thefine brushwork of a meticulous student of the human condition (and I love theuse of all the painting/colour descriptions - so effective) set within therich, widescreen drama of a bold and visionary storyteller. It's like staringat a stone at the bottom of a very clear, but slowly shifting, lake. Anenchanting and deftly layered exploration of desire, self-identity andbelonging.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin, 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 his mother's abandonment of 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 her friendship with the beautiful aspiring model Odile, the energy of the city, and her desire to become an artist. But when she becomes involved with an older man and the relationship turns destructive, Yuki's life is unmoored. Harmless Like You is a suspenseful novel about the complexities of identity, art, adolescent friendships, and familial bonds that asks--and ultimately answers--how does a mother desert her son?
LC Classification Number
PS3602.U2512H37 2017
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- a***n (43)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseMistakenly ordered a paperback that I thought was a hardcover, not sellers fault; it was described properly on the listing. Seller still processed a refund the day I went to return the item and let me keep the item anyway. A+++ service. Book arrived quickly in great condition and for a great price. Thank you so much! Amazing seller!
- n***c (94)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.