Bliss Montage could be a great read for fans of genre-bending and thought-provoking short story collections. Ling Ma's writing style is both imaginative and nuanced, exploring topics such as love, loneliness, and the complexities of human relationships through a lens that is both surreal and all too real. The stories in this collection are sure to leave readers with powerful and lasting impressions, challenging them to see the world in new and unexpected ways.

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• National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2022)

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages What happens when fantasy tears through 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. From a woman who lives in a house with all of her ex-boyfriends, to a toxic friendship built around a drug that makes you invisible, to an ancient ritual that might heal you of anything if you bury yourself alive, these and other scenarios reveal that the outlandish and the everyday are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly similar.

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