Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The moving new novel by the author of Harmless Like You, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and NPR Great Read. On their first date, Mina told Oscar that she was bisexual, vegetarian, and on meds. He married her anyhow. A challenge to be met. She had low days, sure, but manageable. But now, maybe not so much . . . Mina is standing on the George Washington Bridge late at night, staring over the edge, when a patrol car drives up. She tries...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
'"This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration."--Lorrie Moore. 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...
3) Go home!
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
“The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories, poems, and testaments, perhaps home is not so much a place, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my peoplesee usand feel, in our collective outsiderhood, at home.” Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Asian diasporic writers imagine “home” in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and...