Bliss Montage

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.

Publisher: The Text Publishing Company

ISBN: 9781911231356

Publication year: 2022

Format: Softcover

• The Story Prize 2022;
• National Book Critics Circle Awards for Fiction 2022;
• Shortlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award 2023.