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Ling Ma: Bliss Montage (Hardcover, 2022, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 3 stars

What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? …

Review of 'Bliss Montage' on 'Goodreads'

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Got to about 50% so will consider this read.

I was just really bored. This isn’t nearly as weird as I thought it would be, which is a big part of why I picked it up. It ends up being largely slice of life, which is exactly the kind of short story I avoid. I enjoyed Severance, so I had high hopes for this one.

As others have noted, the narrator of each story reads as the same, flat person. That works in a novel from one POV, but in a short story collection you expect some distinction.