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Book

Bliss montage

Author

Ling Ma

Call Number

  • FICTION MA (CEN, EAS, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Physical Description

228 pages : 20 cm.

Summary

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.

Contents

  • Los Angeles
  • Oranges
  • G
  • Yeti lovemaking
  • Returning
  • Office hours
  • Peking duck
  • Tomorrow.

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