{"product_id":"9781324000754","title":"Harmless Like You","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration.”—Lorrie Moore\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in startlingly beautiful prose, \u003cem\u003eHarmless Like You\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cem\u003eHarmless Like You\u003c\/em\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121913577712,"sku":"9781324000754","price":20.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781324000754_p0.jpg?v=1769893470","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781324000754","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}