![]() ![]() Like its predecessor, Ma’s new book is bizarre and entrancing, seeming to cement her reputation as one of the country’s most imaginative authors of fiction. She spent 2020 and beyond working on the stories in “Bliss Montage,” her collection published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Ma didn’t spend too much time reflecting on her apparent ability to see the future, though. ![]() ![]() Related: Sign up for our free newsletter about books, authors, reading and more “I definitely didn’t think I was predicting the future, but I was maybe picking up on things from my experience about how I felt a pandemic would go - which is that capitalism will be prioritized above all.” “I can’t say that I’m clairvoyant,” Ma says via telephone from her Chicago home. Candace’s employer, like a lot of other businesses, is reluctant to acknowledge the pandemic, preferring to focus on its bottom line. But Ling Ma’s was weirder than most.Ī year and a half before Covid-19 hit the U.S., Ma published her first novel, “Severance.” The book told the story of Candace Chen, a young woman working a dead-end publishing job when a mysterious virus, first observed in China, paralyzes the world. ![]()
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