Bliss Montage: Stories

ISBN: 0374293511

Author: Ma, Ling

Condition: New

A National Indie BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature PrizeA Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Houston Chronicle, Roxane Gays The Audacity, Mashable, Polygon, Kirkus Reviews, and Library JournalA New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceUncanny and haunting . . . Genius. -Michele Filgate, The Washington PostDazzling. -Maureen Corrigan, NPRs Fresh AirWhat 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.