Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You and Starling Days. She has won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award and been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Her work has been a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an NPR Great Read.

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Men Talk to Me About Cars

By Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

“There is a peculiar doublethink required to travel alone as a young woman. You must expect that every straight-seeming man you meet wants to fuck you or kill you.”