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"Narrator Katharine Chin nails the dark humor and flat tone of this bizarre and fascinating short story collection."- AudioFile A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages. What happens when fantasy tears 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. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything—if you bury yourself alive. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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“There’s a bit of magic realism in Ma’s imaginings, a bit of horror, and often an emotional distancing.”
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“Surreal…[with] powerhouses so absorbing that you’ll pray Ma spins them off into future novels.”
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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A Time Magazine Pick
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A Los Angeles Times Pick
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A Philadelphia Inquirer Pick of Must-Reads
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Among longlisted titles for New Yorker Best Books of the Year, 2022
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Among longlisted titles for Powell's Best Books of the Year, 2022
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Among longlisted titles for Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2022
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Among longlisted titles for Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2022
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Among shortlisted titles for National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee, 2023
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2022
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Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner, 2022
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Among longlisted titles for Vogue Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2022
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About Ling Ma
Ling Ma is an author whose debut novel, Severance, received massive acclaim and won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and was named a best book of the year by numerous publications, as well as being named best debut fiction of the decade by Literary Hub. She received her MFA degree from Cornell University. Prior to graduate school she worked as a journalist and editor.