Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)Fiction | 2022 | Winner |
About This Book
Eight stories of women navigating desire, diaspora, and haunting—a woman who keeps all her ex-boyfriends in a room, a colony of passengers who sleep indefinitely. The stories are strange, funny, and emotionally precise. Winner of the NBCC Fiction Award.
About the Author
Ling MaUS
Ling Ma is a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer born in Sanming, China in 1983, raised in the United States. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2022 for *Bliss Montage*, a collection of stories exploring diaspora, desire, and the uncanny. Her debut novel *Severance* (2018), a satirical apocalyptic novel, became a cult classic.
