Ghosts are the ultimate voyeurs writers in their ectoplasmic. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. Severance is a prototype for the best of Bliss Montage: surreal but rooted, watching at a remove while the world crumbles. 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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