My Dear You

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ISBN: 9781529155365
Title: My Dear You
Author: KHONG RACHEL

The probing and irrepressibly poignant debut short story collection from Rachel Khong, author of the New York Times bestselling REAL AMERICANS.

‘Incandescent and explosive and compassionate all at once’ BRYAN WASHINGTON

‘Rachel Khong is one of our best observers of the human condition’ RITA BULLWINKEL

‘Beautiful, effortless’ AIMEE BENDER

From the author of the New York Times bestselling REAL AMERICANS comes a playful, richly inquisitive collection exploring the connections and disruptions which define us.

Throughout MY DEAR YOU, normal people go through extraordinary transformations. A government injects its people with a drug that makes them see everyone else as members of their own race and gender. A factory worker develops an unlikely friendship with the artificially intelligent sex doll she is tasked with training. God decides that humanity is a lost cause and gives each person 24 hours to decide in which animal form they will spend the rest of their days.

Along the way, characters are confronted with supernatural and otherworldly interventions, as well as the earthly, human concerns that shape our daily lives- capitalism and race, intimacy, memory, and mortality.

Playful and tender, dark and witty, each of these stories is infused with a profound sense of compassion. They express a powerful curiosity about the human experience, and the inescapable choices that meet us all- to have or not have children; to pursue connections with others in spite of life’s impermanence; how to live – and live well.

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Praise for Rachel Khong

‘Mesmerizing’ BRIT BENNETT
‘Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft’ ANDREW SEAN GREER
‘Traverses time with verve and feeling’ RAVEN LEILANI
‘A page turner’ HA JIN

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16/04/2026
Pages: 240
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