Enchanting, full of intelligence, dry humor, and an appealing self-awareness.' - Publishers Weekly ' does not disappoint.' -Liberty Hardy, Book Riot, 'Best New Short Story Collections' 'Ling Ma is a master at subverting expectations. Haunting and artful.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ' fantastical and often brilliant collection. These are rich themes, and explores them with the logic of dreams. Ma also writes about motherhood and academic life and abusive relationships. The ideas of home and belonging recur throughout the collection. ' uses elements of the fantastic but grounds them in a reality that is more recognizably our own. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. 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.

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 National Indie Bestseller A Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Kirkus Reviews A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A Finalist for The Story Prize 'Dazzling.' -Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air 'Uncanny and haunting.

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