Bliss Montage: Stories
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Ling Ma. (2022). Bliss Montage: Stories. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.

Ling Ma. 2022. Bliss Montage: Stories. Macmillan Audio.

Ling Ma, Bliss Montage: Stories. Macmillan Audio, 2022.

Ling Ma. Bliss Montage: Stories. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2022.

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   • bioText: Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. She is the author of the novel Severance, which received the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. She lives in Chicago with her family.
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"Narrator Katharine Chin nails the dark humor and flat tone of this bizarre and fascinating short story collection."- AudioFile

A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages.
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 Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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     June 27, 2022
     Ma (Severance) examines themes of otherness and disconnection in this fantastical and often brilliant collection. In “Tomorrow,” an arm protrudes from a woman’s vagina during her pregnancy, which her doctor says is “not ideal” but “relatively safe,” his cursory advice gleaned from a website that “looks like WebMD.” The mother, like many of the book’s protagonists, emigrated from China to the U.S. as a child; later in the story, she returns to visit her great-aunt, with whom she communicates primarily through a translation app. In “Returning,” a woman travels with her husband to his native country, the fictional Garboza, only to be abandoned by him at the airport. The protagonist, who wrote a novel about a couple who “during an economic depression, decide to cryogenically freeze themselves,” experiences ambivalence about her marriage. These stories, and the elliptical “Office Hours” (about a young woman’s semi-romance with her film professor, who has a Narnia-like magical wardrobe in his office), are enchanting, full of intelligence, dry humor, and an appealing self-awareness. On the other hand, a couple of entries—such as “Los Angeles,” about a woman living with 100 of her ex-boyfriends—don’t quite manifest into something more than their conceit. Nevertheless, there is much to enjoy. Agent: Jin Auh, Wylie Agency.

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   • content: Narrator Katharine Chin nails the dark humor and flat tone of this bizarre and fascinating short story collection. Embodying the detached storyteller, Chin allows the strangeness of the eight stories to pull listeners in and keep them intrigued. Blending fantastical elements and absurdity, the stories include "Los Angeles," about a woman who lives with her 100 ex-boyfriends and a husband, and "Tomorrow," in which a pregnant woman has an arm protruding and growing from her vagina. Woven into these unusual works are explorations of the immigrant experience, loneliness, relationships, and more. Reverb effects are utilized throughout, enhancing the haunting, surreal effect of the stories. The result is a memorable, thought-provoking collection. V.T.M. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages.
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 Macmillan...

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Los Angeles
Oranges
G
Yeti Lovemaking
Returning
Office Hours
Peking Duck
Tomorrow

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