Short Story Book Club "Bliss Montage" by Ling Ma

117 S. Pineapple Ave.,Sarasota FL 34236

03 May, 2023

Description

In this monthly book club dedicated to reading collections of short stories, May's pick is Bliss Montage by Ling Ma, eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions.The benefit of our Short Story Book Club: If you only read one or two of the stories, you can still meaningfully participate and not worry about spoiling a book you're only halfway through. If you're not wild about one short story between the covers, chances are that you'll find at least one with which you'll fall in love. We will meet in person at our store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $26 which includes your copy of Bliss Montage to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting.About Bliss Montage:A National Indie Bestseller. A Best Book of the Year at The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Kirkus Reviews. 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 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. 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. .......................................................................... All signed up and unable to go? Please let us know! Seating is limited and there may be people on our waitlist who would like to to take your place. Please send an email to [email protected] ASAP and hopefully we'll see you next time. Click here to go to the Bookstore1Sarasota website.