Ling Ma
Author Biography & Works
Ling Ma is an American novelist and associate professor at the University of Chicago. Her first book, Severance, won the Kirkus Prize in 2018 and was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second book, Bliss Montage (2022), won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Story Prize. She is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.
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Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ling_Ma
Books by Ling Ma
Severance
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty....
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