Bliss Montage: Stories

Written by Ling Ma

Narrated by Katharine Chin

"Narrator Katharine Chin nails the dark humor and flat tone of this bizarre and fascinating short story collection."- AudioFile

A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages.

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 Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Sep 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781250875938

Ling Ma

Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. She is the author of the novel Severance, which received the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. She lives in Chicago with her family.

Reviews for Bliss Montage

[Jas Badyal · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved Severance by Ling Ma so I was definitely excited to check out these short stories. They are definitely bizarre and surreal, getting you to think in these wonderful snapchats of humanity.

The audiobook was narrated by Katherine Chin, who did a great job.

[emilia · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Fue singular, entretenido pero creo que tenía mis expectativas demasiado altas.