Bliss Montage: Stories

A National Indie Bestseller
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice

"Dazzling." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air
"Uncanny and haunting . . . Genius." --Michele Filgate, The Washington Post

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.

Author: Ling Ma
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.36w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780374293512

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2022 pg. 6
Publishers Weekly 06/27/2022
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2022
Booklist 08/01/2022 pg. 18
Shelf Awareness 09/18/2022
Library Journal 10/07/2022 pg. 1