Book description
A National Indie Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize
A Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Houston Chronicle, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, Mashable, Polygon, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal
A New…
Why read it?
1 author picked Bliss Montage as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I adore short stories and Ling Ma does the medium justice
with her willingness to push outside reality in such a dark, beautiful way.
The stories range across a variety of characters however
there’s a thread I found extremely relatable as a young woman who isn’t maybe so young anymore. This tendency to
fantasize a different future for myself if I didn’t do x, y, z… or replaying
the past and wondering how I dated that person, stayed in that toxic
friendship, or frankly, survived a foolish night out ;)
I deeply appreciate how Ma toys with time and perspective…
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