Her first novel, Severance (about an unfulfilled Bible product coordinator who becomes one of Earth’s last survivors after an infection wipes out the human race) won the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction-and offered a brilliantly dark-humored look at the millennial condition. “Stupid” isn’t a word readers typically associate with Ma, who will appear in a virtual conversation with Alexandra Kleeman hosted by Powell’s on Sept. I just thought this idea of yeti love making was kind of fun and kind of stupid.” “I was thinking that I’d like to just go through some sort of transformational process where I can just get rid of the pain of a breakup. “‘Yeti’ was a story that came about while I was in my 20s going through a breakup,” Ma tells WW. “Making love with a yeti is difficult and painful at first, but easy once you’ve done it more than 30 times,” begins “Yeti Lovemaking,” one of eight short stories featured in Ling Ma’s new collection, Bliss Montage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 240 pages, $25). Ling Ma (Courtesy Ling Ma) By Michelle Kicherer Septemat 6:00 am PDT
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