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Part I, Los Angeles - Oranges (1 - 48)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Ma, Ling. Bliss Montage. Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2022. Hardcover.

• This book is a short story collection written in a variety of tenses and from a variety of perspectives which will be noted at the beginning of each story summary.

• The first story, "Los Angeles," is written in the present tense and from the first-person perspective of an unnamed female narrator.

• The narrator lives in a house in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and 100 ex-boyfriends.

• The narrator often goes out with the ex-boyfriends in a fancy car, a Porsche.

• There are immediately elements of magical realism to this story.

• The Husband only speaks in the symbol $$$.

• The narrator always goes out with The Husband for dinner, sometimes on a private time-shared jet.

• The reader understands...

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