Harmless Like You A Novel [Hardcover]

Buchanans 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.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.Rowan Hisayo Buchanans debut is a beautifully textured novel. . . Yukisstory feels compellingly immediate, as prickly and unpredictable as itsprotagonist.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.The brilliant debut novel by Rowan Buchanan is cause for celebration.The kind of novel our century deservesa 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.In?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 is a book Ive 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 giftunassuming, elegant, vividly prismatic. Not since Sigrid NunezsWhata 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) seló*