![]() ![]() If you attempt to transcribe a dream, however, it wouldn’t make much sense because dreams don’t adhere to narrative logic. ![]() How did you decide on that mix?Ī: With many of the stories, I was inspired by dreams. Q: The stories in Bliss Montage create a woozy disorientation through a combination of realism and surrealism, of sadness and humor. The collection envelopes you in a dream-like ambience that shades into nightmare, tackling with wit and weird wisdom everything from abusive ex-boyfriends to immigration, from academia to unexpected pregnancy. Like her critically acclaimed first novel, 2018’s Severance - which balanced millennial coming-of-age workplace satire with full-on zombie apocalypse horror in a world stricken by a plague that causes people to work themselves to death - Bliss Montage, out September 13, crosses the absurd with the appalling, simultaneously evoking both the fantastical and the all too real. In her highly anticipated new book, Ling Ma, who teaches writing at the University of Chicago, has penned eight hilarious and haunting stories about the frequent dissatisfactions of contemporary life. ![]()
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