A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully built mirages What happens when fantasy tears through 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. From a woman who lives in a house with all of her ex-boyfriends, to a toxic friendship built around a drug that makes you invisible, to an ancient ritual that might heal you of anything if you bury yourself alive, these and other scenarios reveal that the outlandish and the everyday are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly similar.
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i love Weird Short Stories and this gave me sayaka murata vibes in the best way. i do agree with some other reviews that every story could be from the exact same chinese-american woman’s POV bc they’re all so similar, but that’s not a dealbreaker for me. didn’t love how so many of the stories involved the narrator having some romantic entanglement with a white dude bc i feel like there’s enough WMAF stories already, but everyone’s entitled to speak their truth or whatever!!