Still, the narrator tries to build a new life for herself, though the past and its attendant memories of violence will not leave her. The girl lives in the real world our narrator’s world is hollowing out from the inside.
From her expensive new home high in the hills, she watches the girl who lives in her old studio apartment - the girl is drinking juice, the girl is standing hunched over the kitchen sink. sprawl with the ex-boyfriends, touring the recent past. She has attained a monied, respectable life, but she is adrift, coasting through the L.A. In “Los Angeles,” a woman lives in a sprawling complex with her wealthy husband, children and 100 ex-boyfriends. Ma weaves the surreal with the fabric of everyday life until they are nearly indistinguishable, with such seamlessness that there is great pleasure in visiting the world through her eyes. Under these circumstances, reading Bliss Montage became a source of comfort. When I left, I said goodbye to friends, family and familiarity for a new life in Montana.
“Los Angeles” is the first short story in Ling Ma’s new collection, Bliss Montage, and a city that I moved away from six weeks ago.
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