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Bliss Montage

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Bliss Montage won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize and was a National Indie Bestseller and 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. 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.

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Publisher
Picador USA
Year
2023
ISBN-13
9781250893543
Genre
FictionFantasy
Topics
Love and lonelinessIdentity and belongingToxic friendshipMotherhoodHome and displacement