īuchanan's second novel, Starling Days, was published by Sceptre in 2019. Ilana Masad wrote in the Los Angeles Review of Books that "there is no doubt about how good an artist she is, for this book demonstrates that she is an excellent one". National Public Radio selected Harmless Like You as a Great Read and noted that the novel was "highly anticipated". ![]() In America, The New York Times Book Review placed the hardback and paperback releases of the novel in its "Editor's Choice" section. The novel was also shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize, but did not win. The book won a Betty Trask Award and the Author's Club First Novel Award. The Guardian called Harmless Like You a "startling debut" in England. There was a "fierce" six-way bidding war among publishers for the manuscript, and Harmless Like You was praised by Lorrie Moore and Alexander Chee. The novel follows the overlapping stories of Yuki Oyama, a Japanese-American girl in 1960's New York who fights to become an artist, and her estranged son Jay, who in 2016 must travel to Berlin to confront a mother who abandoned their family when he was two. Career Novels īuchanan's debut novel, Harmless Like You, was published in the U.K. ![]() from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. ![]() She lived in Tokyo while working as an intern for a management consulting firm, then earned her M.F.A. from Columbia University, where she was a Core Scholar. She is the editor of Go Home!, an anthology of stories by Asian American writers.īuchanan was born to a half-Chinese, half-Japanese American mother and a British father, and grew up between London and New York. Her novels include Harmless Like You, which received a Betty Trask Award and the 2017 Author's Club First Novel Award, and Starling Days. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (born June 2, 1989) is a British- American writer.
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