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BLOB: A Love Story

Maggie Su

8 Reviews

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

An acerbically funny debut novel about struggling in your twenties and discovering a mysterious blob!

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT NOVEL

'Witty and wild'
Harper's Bazaar 'A strange but uniquely beautiful concept of a love story that delves into care, compassion and what it is to be human'
Stylist

'This is a sharp, funny and poignant look at what it means to connect with another being, and yourself'
Weike Wang, New York Times

Recently dumped and stuck in a dead-end job, Vi's life is a lonely mess.

That is, until she stumbles across a mysterious sentient blob outside a drag club. She takes it home, feeding it a diet of cereal and reality TV. Soon Vi realises she can shape her gelatinous companion into the perfect man: attentive, outgoing, and with more than a passing resemblance to Ryan Gosling.

But is Bob the blob really the answer to all her problems, or just a catalyst for further disaster?

'Maggie Su's debut novel is nothing if not surprising'
The Times *Book of the Month*

'A modern-day Mrs. Caliban, BLOB is a book that looks at identity and desire in profoundly interesting ways'
Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here

'Utterly original, charming and funny, weirdly real and really weird. I can't stop thinking about this book and I'm telling everyone I know to read it'
Kate Davies, author of In at the Deep End

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Praise for BLOB: A Love Story

  • A surprisingly moving and imaginative debut from a fiercely original new talent - Harper's Bazaar

  • This weird but oddly wonderful debut makes for tender but compulsive reading - Sunday Post

  • Unique, heartfelt, and hilarious, BLOB is a delightfully inquisitive meditation on relationships and identity

  • Like a beguiling literary love child of Melissa Broder and Jeff VanderMeer . . . Maggie Su's debut will make you laugh, shriek, and cheer for its wayward, wobbly inventions

  • A complicated but moving take on how tricky it can be trying to become a grown-up . . . Maggie Su's debut is tender, compulsive reading - Daily Mirror

  • In BLOB, Su's prose breathes magic, humor, and empathy into everything it touches . . . You'll want to read this in one sitting, but try to savor it: there are gems of laughter and insight to be unearthed on every page

  • A hilariously absurd debut . . . a perfectly apt coming-of-age story about modern romance in your twenties - Elle Australia

  • Maggie Su's debut novel is the tale of a down-on-her-luck woman, Vi, who finds a pitiable blob of goo with eyes in the alley behind a bar. She gradually molds it into a dreamy human-shaped love interest but finds her own angst harder to contain. - New York Magazine

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