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Book review: Variegated forms of love flash and flicker in Daryl Qilin Yam’s Be Your Own Bae

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Singaporean novelist Daryl Qilin Yam's Be Your Own Bae (2024) has the light surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the wistful patina of a Nguan photograph.

Singaporean novelist Daryl Qilin Yam's Be Your Own Bae (2024) has the light surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the wistful patina of a Nguan photograph.

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Be Your Own Bae

By Daryl Qilin Yam
Fiction/Epigram Books/Paperback/272 pages/$22.78

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