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Bliss montage / Ling Ma.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022Edition: First editionDescription: 228 pages : 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374293512
  • 0374293511
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Los Angeles -- Oranges -- G -- Yeti lovemaking -- Returning -- Office hours -- Peking duck -- Tomorrow.
Summary: "A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages"-- Provided by publisher.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.
List(s) this item appears in: 2024 FPL Reading Challenge: Award Winning Read
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction MA, LING Available 33111010895429
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

"A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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

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