![]() ![]() You walk around with a lesser gravity, a low-helium balloon the day after a birthday party.” “G” is the name of a story and the name of the drug the narrator of the story takes with her best friend, Bonnie, on her last night in New York. The sensation of invisibility is one of floating. “Without question, the best part of taking G is the beginning. ![]() (There are echoes of Ma’s debut novel, in which a pandemic turns people into zombies that repeat the same everyday action over and over.) In the stories that follow, Ma uses elements of the fantastic but grounds them in a reality that is more recognizably our own. This piece feels uncanny in the Freudian sense-as if it is peopled not by actual humans but by ghosts or automata. The husband’s dialogue is rendered in dollar signs. Her hundred ex-boyfriends live in the “largest but ugliest wing.” While the narrator takes these past lovers on outings to Moon Juice and LACMA, the husband works at an investment firm. ![]() The narrator of “Los Angeles” lives with her husband, their children, and the children’s au pairs in the east and west wings of their home. Short stories from the author of Severance, winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for fiction. ![]()
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