A year and a half before Covid-19 hit the U.S., Ma published her first novel, ‘Severance,’ about a pandemic first observed in China that paralyzes the world.
pandemic. But Ling Ma’s was weirder than most.
“Something about being in a bit of a bubble, about having to go into hibernation, I was able to look at those scenes and unfold them,” she says. “I was working on them while pretty alone, pretty isolated, so these stories definitely feel very internal and very personal.” The process wasn’t easy. While writing “Bliss Montage,” she realized that “instead of troubleshooting one set of problems, like with a novel, you’re troubleshooting eight sets of problems.”
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