My Dear You

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

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.