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Bliss montage stories5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() For a reported story on any of these, Ma would have been encouraged to reach one single conclusion about mycelium or MFA bros. ![]() In 2019, she told PEN America that she had once wanted to be a journalist, and this tendency toward reporting is reflected in her non-player characters: fungal spores, the supply chain, white MFA students who gatekeep Chineseness for Chinese American writers. Those are both examples from Ling Ma’s new collection, Bliss Montage. Your mother can be both your mother and a character in a published story that you talked about in an imagined story in which you discuss your real mother talking about your published stories. Your hundred ex-boyfriends really do live in your LA mansion while also not being there at all. Immaterial fears grip our consciousness as tightly as mothers and the weather, a contradiction more suited to the magic and mundanity of fiction than, say, vox pops on Oxford Street. Bliss Montage, by Ling Ma, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 228 pages, $ 26įiction is where the surreal finds harbor, praise the Lord, and where the simultaneity of experience can be honored in full. ![]()
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