Fiction: Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
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Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Conor O'Nolan
The cover of Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's debut novel, Harmless Like You, sports some very high praise from writers as esteemed as Lorrie Moore. Judith Mitchell captures it the best when she recalls its "unflinching honesty". Harmless is a relentlessly honest book, capturing some of the ugliest and under-represented facets of life, in rich, elegant prose.
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