“Each story unspools like a dream sequence privately remembered. Told with what’s become signature sting of wit and satire.” and find the world you thought you knew shaken up and rearranged. “A surreal and unnerving collection of stories that explores the nature of connection and autonomy.” “ destabilizes easy expectations-around speculative literature, Asian American literature, immigrant literature, trauma literature, and fiction itself-to gratifying effect. The tension between the familiar and the unfathomable pulses on every page.” As always, Ling Ma’s big, weird ideas set the stage for keen emotional insights.” Ma harnesses the pulsating desire and power dynamics present in all relationships, from intimate friendships and haunting romantic entanglements to motherhood and the invisible yet omnipresent ties of ancestors.” Abby Manzella, The Minneapolis Star Tribune Powerhouse so absorbing that you’ll pray Ma spins them off into future novels.”

Christopher Borrelli, The Chicago Tribune Bliss Montage delivers on the white-hot promise of 2018 breakout.” Ma is well on her way to a landmark career.” “Weird and wonderful, surreal and subversive. Lovia Gyarkye, The New York Times Book Review Evidence of a gifted writer curious about the limits of theoretical possibility.” Named a Must Read by The New York Times, TIME, Vulture, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Esquire, Nylon, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Gothamist, Associated Press, Fortune, Good Housekeeping, The Chicago Review of Books, Literary Hub, The Millions, Publishers Weekly, Book Riot, Pop Sugar, Polygon, Tordotcom, and Nuvo These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything-if you bury yourself alive. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. 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. What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? “Dazzling.” -Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air Genius.” -Michele Filgate, The Washington Post Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature PrizeĪ Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Houston Chronicle, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Mashable, Polygon, Kirkus Reviews, and Library JournalĪ New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

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