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My Dear You
Rachel Khong
★★★★· Published 2026· 240 pages· read 2026
Ten stories with premises that shouldn't work — a woman killed by a crocodile on her honeymoon picks out her appearance for the afterlife; a factory worker falls for an AI sex doll — and absolutely do. I've been a Khong fan since Goodbye, Vitamin, and this collection is her at her strangest and most playful.
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