“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, author of The Butterfly Lampshade
“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, author of Interior Chinatown
“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, author of Headshot
“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, author of This is Salvaged: Stories
“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, author of Palaver
“This collection is wonderful. The stories are a little quirky and comic, but also sharp and insightful.” —Chicago Review of Books
“The 10 thought-provoking stories range from tender to sinister to funny to sad, and they won’t quickly leave readers’ minds.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Each surprising, intricate, and emotionally resonant tale underscores a storytelling talent that’s all Khong’s own. Fans of Khong’s Goodbye Vitamin (2017) and Real Americans (2024), which was a Read with Jenna pick, will adore following the author’s imagination in these shorter tales.” —Booklist (starred review)
“In these provocative stories, Khong offers well-wrought and intricate depictions of Asian American and Asian life, often with a fantastical or speculative twist. . . . There’s much to admire in this assured collection.” —Publishers Weekly
“Khong writes tales of love in its many forms: being in love, not being in love, yearning to be in love, in the throes of unexpected yet wonderful lifelong friendships, and the intimate intertwining of love and grief. Read if you’re down to be existential.” —Electric Lit
“Surreal, profound, prophetic, playful, and provocative. . . . [Khong] uses the flexibility of the short-story form to wonderful and whimsical advantage.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“These stories . . . blur the lines of genre in the vein of Marie-Helene Bertino and Kevin Wilson, with ghost-conjuring cats and strange government technology alongside the deeply human questions of what it means to be alive in a world that might not love you back.” —Lit Hub
“There is always a remarkable economy of language in Rachel Khong’s books. She doesn’t waste any time—or any words—getting to the point, but she doesn’t sacrifice artistry, either.” —Book Riot
