Bliss Montage

PRIZES: Winner of The Story Prize 2022 (United States) Winner of Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Awards 2022 (United States)

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 York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Uncanny and haunting . . . Genius." --Michele Filgate, The Washington Post "Dazzling." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air What happens when fantasy tears 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. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything--if you bury yourself alive. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike.

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 York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Uncanny and haunting . . . Genius." --Michele Filgate, The Washington Post "Dazzling." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air What happens when fantasy tears 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. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything--if you bury yourself alive. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike.