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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