Enchanting, full of intelligence, dry humor, and an appealing self-awareness.”- Publishers Weekly “ fantastical and often brilliant collection. “Dreamy stories, each with a foot in the fantastic and the other foot firmly in the appalling everyday.”-Emily Temple, Literary Hub 'Weird and wonderful, surreal and subversive, these stories prove that Ma is well on her way to a landmark career.' -Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire 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 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? Ma will be joined by author Adam Dalva for a very special launch event.A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages. Bliss Montage 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. We're delighted to welcome Ling Ma, award-winning author of Severance, to our events stage to celebrate her second book, a collection of stories that crashes through our carefully built mirages. St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series)īook Launch: Ling Ma presents Bliss Montage.

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