{"id":58015,"date":"2019-05-04T01:52:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58015"},"modified":"2019-05-04T01:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:52:55","slug":"harmless-like-you-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58015","title":{"rendered":"Harmless Like You: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harmless Like You: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton<\/a>
\nFebruary 2017
\n320 pages
\n5.9 \u00d7 8.6 in
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-324-00074-7<\/p>\n

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You<\/em> is set across New York<\/a>, Connecticut<\/a>, and Berlin<\/a>, following Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki\u2019s son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront his mother\u2019s abandonment of him when he was only two years old.<\/p>\n

The novel opens when Yuki is sixteen and her father is posted back to Japan<\/a>. Though she and her family have been living as outsiders in New York City<\/a>, 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\u2019s life is unmoored. Harmless Like You<\/em> is a suspenseful novel about the complexities of identity, art, adolescent friendships, and familial bonds that asks\u2014and ultimately answers\u2014how does a mother desert her son?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront his mother\u2019s abandonment of him when he was only two years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,8,15,20],"tags":[9816,2724,2948,2711,596,29746,29747,29745,757],"class_list":["post-58015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-berlin","tag-connecticut","tag-germany","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-rowan-buchanan","tag-rowan-h-buchanan","tag-rowan-hisayo-buchanan","tag-w-w-norton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58016,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58015\/revisions\/58016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}