{"product_id":"my-dear-you-stories","title":"My Dear You: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cat summons the ghosts of a woman's former lovers, and God decides humans can be replaced. Rachel Khong's stories set love, dating and grief loose in worlds both familiar and slightly off true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTen stories by the author of \u003cem\u003eReal Americans\u003c\/em\u003e, a New York Times bestseller, and \u003cem\u003eGoodbye, Vitamin\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStarred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Booklist\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubjects include dating in one's thirties, marriage, the pressure to have or not have children, race and Asian American identity, grief and death\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContent note: includes profanity and sexual themes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, 240 pages; Knopf, 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe premises run from the nearly ordinary to the openly absurd: a factory worker befriends the sex doll she is supposed to sell, and the government doses every citizen so that everyone else appears to share their race and gender. Beneath the surreal setups, the stories keep returning to love in its many shapes, from romances that should not happen to friendships that last a lifetime, and to what it means to be Asian American and a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt suits readers of literary short fiction with a speculative edge and readers of Khong's novels. Some doors in these stories open on the everyday and some on the absurd; behind nearly every one, someone is working out how to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRachel Khong's novels are \u003cem\u003eGoodbye, Vitamin\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the California Book Award for First Fiction, and \u003cem\u003eReal Americans\u003c\/em\u003e, a New York Times bestseller. She founded The Ruby, a San Francisco space for women and nonbinary writers and artists, in 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47854466990229,"sku":"NEW-ING-0593803698","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/57_2c73edbd-db73-4f2d-9265-10b51ebc7495.jpg?v=1787902333","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/my-dear-you-stories","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}