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Harmless Like You
- Author
- Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
- Narrator
- Emily Woo Zeller, P.J. Ochlan
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 28 February 2017
- Run Time
- 10 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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, which asks—and ultimately answers—how does a mother desert her son?
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Details
- Author
- Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
- Narrator
- Emily Woo Zeller, P.J. Ochlan
- Duration
- 10 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 February 2017
- ISBN
- 9781681684703
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age
Synopsis
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 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, which asks—and ultimately answers—how does a mother desert her son?
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