Summary
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 connectio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529155365 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529155363 |
| Author: | Rachel Khong |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Hutchinson Heinemann |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 147mm x 24mm |
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Rachel Khong is one of our best observers of the human condition, and isn’t afraid to take us to unreal realms in order to illuminate the very real strangeness about being alive right now, in this specific moment. In these stories, ghosts haunt toilet tanks, girls turn into animals, the dead get to choose new bodies for the afterlife, and sex dolls become friends. These fearlessly funny and smart stories are a joy. – RITA BULLWINKEL
MY DEAR YOU is a garden of bravura, incandescent and explosive and compassionate all at once. Khong’s stories astound and comfort, expanding the form’s possibilities, guiding us through the familiar, and the deeply unknowable, in spectacular form. Khong is one of my favorite writers; MY DEAR YOU is one of my favorite books. – BRYAN WASHINGTON
There’s a beautiful effortless feel to these stories that makes them so highly readable (and I’m sure wasn’t effortless at all), and with it, Khong is able to sneak in abundant insights and a genuine depth that reveals itself unexpectedly. A thoroughly enjoyable collection. – AIMEE BENDER
I couldn’t stop reading these sly, poignant, very funny stories about intimacy and friendship, work and death, longing and connection. Rachel Khong’s writing is so agile and fluid and charming that it can sneak up on you and knock you out. – CHARLES YU
MY DEAR YOU is a collection of wise stories whose wisdom sneaks up on you, delivered as it is in the guise of a joke. If this collection is a book of jokes, the jokes are the hysterical kind. You start out laughing, then realize you’re crying, without quite understanding what’s happened. Rachel Khong: comic, sage. I loved these bonkers stories so much. – VAUHINI VARA
About The Author
Rachel Khong
Rachel Khong is the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction. Real Americans, her second novel, was a New York Times best-seller. In 2018, Khong founded The Ruby, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission District. With friends, she teaches creative writing as The Dream Side. She lives in Los Angeles.
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