Bliss Montage
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Ling Ma
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. From a woman who lives in a house with all of her ex-boyfriends, to a toxic friendship built around a drug that makes you invisible, to an ancient ritual that might heal you of anything if you bury yourself alive, these and other scenarios reveal that the outlandish and the everyday are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly similar.
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Author
Ling Ma
Pages
240
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Date
2022-09-13
ISBN
0374293511 9780374293512
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"A collection of short stories that took place in surreal settings but also felt close to reality. It made me feel so many different emotions reading it. Great book!"
Sandy Lopez
"This whole collection found me feeling unsettled and uncertain the whole time. I read it voraciously, pulled in by the scenes and characters Ling Ma created. The different immigrant experiences she shared were illuminating. The women very interesting, different, but eerily similar. Be ready for a lot of open endings!"
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CaitVD
"I’m not a huge fan of short stories, but of course Ma’s writing is spectacular "
Ruth S.
"Several stories felt underdeveloped "
Kat🙃
"I honestly think this is my new favorite book. It opened my eyes, I really enjoyed it "
Kinzy Barber
"This is now a Ling Ma stan account. I loved this collection of short stories, each more bizarre than the last. This is definitely a book I can see myself coming back to again and again. "
Ali Lee
"YESSSSS let's hear it for weird little short stories!!! I haven't read anything by Ling Ma yet, but now I'm gonna go grab Severance. Her short stories were so funky, clever and original, and they stayed with me long after I read them. I devoured this in one sitting, but I kind of wish I read a story every day for a week so I could really immerse myself in the quirky/weird/emotional worlds. Reminded me of Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang, which also came out this year. <br/><br/>Thank you NetGalley for the free eARC!"
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