![]() A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that. ![]() A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. 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. ![]() 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. 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. What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? A powerful reminder that there is more than one way to see ― and really know ― a person.” ―Michele Filgate, The Washington Post The genius of is unearthed in how stretches the boundaries of the world while zooming in on the details that matter most. If sometimes we wonder where we’ve ended up, maybe that sense of dislocation is the desired final effect.” ―Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air ![]() Ling Ma writes with such authority that we readers are simply swept along. In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness. ![]()
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