{"title":"Ling Ma","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bliss-montage-stories-9781250893543b","title":"Bliss Montage: Stories","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWiiner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, and the Windham Campbell Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eLove and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home—in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBliss Montage\u003c\/span\u003e, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales that take on our everyday fears and fantasies. A woman lives in a mansion with her husband and all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship comes to its breaking point with the resurgence of a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient folk ritual might heal you of anything—if you bury yourself alive. And in \"Office Hours,\" winner of an O. Henry Prize, a film professor discovers a portal inside a closet. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike.","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821288820816,"sku":"9781250893543B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781250893543-l.jpg?v=1785883087"},{"product_id":"severance-9781250214997b","title":"Severance","description":"Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCandace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821290360912,"sku":"9781250214997B","price":10.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781250214997-l.jpg?v=1785883093"},{"product_id":"bliss-montage-stories-9780374293512b","title":"Bliss Montage: Stories","description":"What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIn \u003ci\u003eBliss Montage\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThese and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42825636020304,"sku":"9780374293512B","price":11.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780374293512-l.jpg?v=1785901798"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/collections\/ling-ma.oembed","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}