Since we wanted to get some shopping done, we decided to stop off for some dinner first. “In this riveting collection of stories, by which one is alternately startled, horri?ed, and delighted, Ling Ma stands out once again as one of the most original writers of her generation.Our 6 hour drive down from Vancouver, BC to Portland turned into a 9 hour trip due to a major accident on the I5 as well as numerous traffic snarl-ups. It all adds up to a uniquely satisfying reading experience.” -Nick Drnaso, author of Sabrina Bliss Montage presents a strange and compelling intersection between stark realism and absurd fantasy. “Ling Ma is a master at subverting expectations. “ does not disappoint.” -Liberty Hardy, Book Riot, “Best New Short Story Collections” Enchanting, full of intelligence, dry humor, and an appealing self-awareness.” - Publishers Weekly “ fantastical and often brilliant collection. Haunting and artful.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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. “ rich and capacious collection, a montage which begs to be viewed over and over again.” -William Shaw, Strange Horizons “Eight dreamy stories, each with a foot in the fantastic and the other foot firmly in the appalling everyday.” -Emily Temple, Lit Hub, “Most Anticipated Books of 2022” She is an Assistant Professor at the New School and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, n+1, and The Guardian. She lives in Chicago with her family.Īlexandra Kleeman is the author of the novel Something New Under the Sun, one of the New York Times’ Notable Books of 2021, Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine. 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. Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. 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. In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly di?erent 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? This event is presented in partnership with Powell's Books (Portland, OR), Politics and Prose (Washington, D.C.), Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, MA), and BookPeople (Austin, TX).īliss Montage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Ī new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages. Once you make your purchase, you will receive a zoom link 12-24 hours BEFORE the event that will give you access to the event via private link.
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