Harmless Like You
Read by
P. J. Ochlan,
Emily Woo Zeller
Release:
02/28/2017
Release:
02/28/2017
Release:
02/28/2017
Release:
02/28/2017
Runtime:
10h 56m
Runtime:
10h 56m
Runtime:
10h 56m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“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.”
New York Times Book Review
One of NPR’s Great Reads Selections
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
Winner of a Betty Trask Award
Winner of the 2017 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
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?
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?
Release:
2017-02-28
2017-02-28
2017-02-28
2017-02-28
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
10h 56m
10h 56m
10h 56m
10h 56m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.95 lb
0.0 lb
0.75 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781681684697
9781681684703
9781665146111
9781665146104
Publisher:
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
Highbridge Audio
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