{"product_id":"my-dear-you-rachel-khong-9781529155365","title":"My Dear You","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe probing and irrepressibly poignant debut short story collection from Rachel Khong, author of the New York Times bestselling REAL AMERICANS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Incandescent and explosive and compassionate all at once' BRYAN WASHINGTON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Rachel Khong is one of our best observers of the human condition' RITA BULLWINKEL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful, effortless' AIMEE BENDER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling REAL AMERICANS comes a playful, richly inquisitive collection exploring the connections and disruptions which define us. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlayful 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Rachel Khong\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Mesmerizing' BRIT BENNETT\n\u003cbr\u003e'Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft' ANDREW SEAN GREER\n\u003cbr\u003e'Traverses time with verve and feeling' RAVEN LEILANI\n\u003cbr\u003e'A page turner' HA JIN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel Khong","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48811586748659,"sku":"9781529155365","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781529155365.jpg?v=1775592060","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/my-dear-you-rachel-khong-9781529155365","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}