Bliss Montage

By Ling Ma,

Book cover of Bliss Montage: Stories

Book description

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…

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1 author picked Bliss Montage as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I adore short stories and Ling Ma does the medium justice with her willingness to push outside reality in such a dark, beautiful way.


The stories range across a variety of characters however there’s a thread I found extremely relatable as a young woman who isn’t maybe so young anymore. This tendency to fantasize a different future for myself if I didn’t do x, y, z… or replaying the past and wondering how I dated that person, stayed in that toxic friendship, or frankly, survived a foolish night out ;)

I deeply appreciate how Ma toys with time and perspective…

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