Hi, yes, I will buy whatever Ling Ma is selling. I loved Severance, and I was crossing my fingers that I would enjoy her short stories as well. And BOY DID I. They’re unsettling, a little taste of horror going on in some of them, while doing what all the best short stories do and making you think. Themes range from sexual relationships to immigrant families in a way that both felt very personal and like a broader examination. Being othered, for a variety of reasons, plays into most of the stories, and we get to experience how that feels from several different perspectives - do you want to hide, become defiant, beg for answers, do anything you can to assimilate to the extent of forgetting what’s happened to you. Short stories are their own art form, and I’m sure authors hate hearing it - but Ling Ma created such lush worlds that I’d love to read a much longer piece about what’s happening in the world of most of the stories here. Brava! Thank you to NetGalley for the advance audiobook!