Harmless Like You: A Novel

"Author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan was struck by lightning as she finished Harmless Like You. I’m not setting up an overburdened metaphor, I just want you to know it’s a thing that literally happened to someone as she finished her smash-hit debut. (She’s fine, by the way.) Plus, Harmless Like You isn’t a lightning strike, it’s a perpetual shudder – a frisson that won’t abate until days after you’ve set the book down and, at last, started to reckon with all that Buchanan has to say."