The book consists of eight pieces of short fiction that take up the familiar tropes of contemporary life-online dating, temp work-only to distort them beyond recognition. In Bliss Montage, her new collection of short stories, Ma seeks to re-enchant a world whose catastrophes have grown all too monotonously real.
Severance had captured, with uncanny realism, the surprisingly mundane experience of living in a pandemic under late capitalism. During the start of lockdown, many readers fixated on how the novel’s science-fictional premise eerily resembled our own world. After the virus functionally turns everyone into zombies, Candace decides to move into her office-dissolving the boundary between leisure and labor by working from home (or, rather, by making the workplace her home). Set amid the backdrop of total social collapse, Severance follows the desultory wanderings of Candace Chen, a twenty-something Chinese American millennial who works a monotonous office job and lives in Brooklyn.
Her debut novel, Severance, which came out in the summer of 2018, is about a global pandemic originating from a virus in China. Ling Ma might be best known as the writer who predicted COVID-19. In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma seeks to re-enchant a world whose catastrophes have grown monotonously real.
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