Bliss Montage Stories
Bliss Montage Stories by Ling Ma, published by Picador on September 12, 2023, is a collection of eight short stories that explore the intersection of fantasy and reality. Written in English and spanning 240 pages, this edition presents a unique blend of magical realism and literary fiction, delving into themes of love, loneliness, and the complexities of human connection.
Readers will encounter a variety of scenarios, including a woman living with her ex-boyfriends and a toxic friendship revolving around an invisibility drug. Each tale examines how the extraordinary and the mundane can reflect and distort one another, offering insights into the nature of home and the human experience. Bliss Montage invites readers to navigate through these imaginative narratives, revealing the often surprising similarities between the bizarre and the everyday.
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A National Indie Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize
A 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 Journal
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
“Uncanny and haunting . . . Genius.” —Michele Filgate, The Washington Post
“Dazzling.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
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.
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