The Dancer's Shadow: An Isekai Romantasy

by Som Phin

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What if the love that teaches you how to feel belongs to someone you met sixty years before you were born? Virak is thirty-two, Cambodian-American, gay, and adrift--haunting his own life in Oakland while his parents' silence about the Khmer Rouge keeps an entire identity just out of reach. When he begins learning classical Apsara dance at a local temple, hoping to reclaim the culture his trauma-scarred family couldn't give him, he's pulled across time into a Cambodia on the edge of show more catastrophe. There, he finds belonging, community, and a love more consuming than anything he's ever known--one that will change him permanently, whatever the cost. Tenderly funny, devastating, and deeply moving, The Dancer's Shadow is a novel about diaspora and longing, about the silence between immigrant generations, and about the radical act of insisting that queer lives have always existed--even when no one wrote them down. show less