Be Your Own Bae
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A dozen short stories from the singular mind behind Lovelier, Lonelier and Kappa Quartet.
Being your best, most authentic self can be a somewhat grievous process. The winner of a beauty pageant bursts into flames the moment she is crowned. A man enters a dream and re-encounters a former lover in Pyongyang, North Korea. A gaggle of hipsters catches news of a secret Bon Iver concert playing somewhere on Dempsey Hill, only to risk the survival of their friendship.
Daryl Qilin Yam's long-awaited first collection of short fiction combines magical realism, speculative autobiography and ekphrasis to weave illusory figures out of gung-ho millennials and the well-meaning mentor figures who fail them, and unveils the strange quests queer folk must embark on in order to keep a hold on love.
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mokingbook
Created 5 months ago
“amazed at how these 12 mini stories are such a masterpiece, and that they’re all interconnected??? which I totally did not expect.
quite cool idea of not revealing the MC’s gender from the get go of each mini stories - left me assuming the gender always.
I love “painful”, “some place/some time”, and “ba-doom” very much. the author’s writing style is just so good. the way he presents grief, the pain of it…I really can feel it.
the way he talks about love, the ambiguity of it, the rawness of it, the absurdity of it, the whole of it… urgh i’m just very very drawn to how the sentences make my heart wrench and pound at the same time.”weehoursreads
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