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Set over the course of a single night and day, Harmless is a tense, provocative, and psychologically astute first novel in the traditions of Herman Koch's The Meal, Tom Perrotta's Little Children, and Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap, about a weekend reunion of old friends that requires a terrifying switch when two teenage girls go lacking. At a distant farm, several old friends collect to catch up, remain by the fireplace, and forget about their overworked lives. But a long weekend in the united states is not Joseph's idea of a great time - not when he's promised his ex-wife he'll use the occasion to talk to their stressed 14-year-old daughter, rather than when the plantation belongs to his ex - fan and her hubby, Alex. Once close friends, Joseph and Alex are now estranged, with much left unspoken between them. As more friends get there and the reunion unfolds, old rivalries, new pressures, and erotic tensions surface. But things have a terrifying switch when the people go back from a nostalgic drug-fueled bender at sundown to discover their two teenage daughters are lacking. As nights descends and the girls continue to be unfound, Joseph and Alex opt to enter the surrounding woods together searching for their daughters. What the two men encounter in the wilderness will push those to confront how far they are willing to go to protect people they love. By changes blackly comic, thought provoking, and harrowing, Harmless presents James Grainger as an unflinching observer of the way we live now and exposes the dark impulses we conceal under the veneer of our modern lives.
