It was dubbed “ the novel for the coronavirus era” in 2020 for its eerily prophetic plot, which centered around a young woman in post-apocalyptic Chicago ravaged by a pandemic from a deadly disease originating in China masks are in fashion and the protagonist moves into her office when public transportation shuts down so she can keep working throughout it. Ma’s debut novel Severance, which was published in 2018, is decidedly not a bliss montage. It's the part that makes me want to write fiction.” And I guess for me, those are my favorite parts of learning what stories were, especially when I first came to the states. “ was kind of my springboard into the story,” Ma tells NYLON from her home in Chicago. Ling Ma’s favorite part of a story is the bliss montage – the sequence in which a character gets a brief moment of ecstasy, before life gets complicated: think Kevin McCallister maxing out his parents’ credit cards upon discovering his parents are gone in Home Alone.
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