![]() ![]() Though the image references a story, ‘Orange,’ that theme of compromised pleasure can be found throughout the book as a whole. “The photo of sheathed oranges under what looks like fluorescent lighting…the impression is one of compromised pleasure, which I thought juxtaposed the title nicely. A rootlessness pulses through Ma’s women, both a repulsion of the male gaze and a craving for validation. said Thursday that it is cutting over 1,000 additional jobs, days after a new chief executive took over and following a round of layoffs of 700 people in November. “I like that it’s stark and clean but a little bit joyless,” a nod to the collection’s anomie, reminiscent as much of Kate Braverman as Gish Jen. ![]() The image “was the designer’s idea,” Ma notes. The composition is straightforward but subtle, with bold type set against a cellophaned package of oranges you’d find in a market or deli. When Peg gets hired at Lumon, she undergoes Severance, a surgical procedure pitched by the company as an effortless way to separate her personal and work lives. ![]() In an exclusive, Oprah Daily reveals the cover for Ma’s highly anticipated collection of short fiction, Bliss Montage, which builds on her earlier themes but also charts its own stylistic path, boring deep into her characters’ interior lives. A genre-bending novel that melded social satire with dystopian elements, Severance won that year’s Kirkus Prize for fiction and was named a New York Times Notable Book. ![]() Ling Ma’s debut, Severance, blazed across the literary landscape when it was published to wide acclaim in 2018. ![]()
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