BLOB

A Love Story

Maggie Su

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Sceptre
28 January 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'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

A hilarious and moving debut novel about a young woman who decides to turn a sentient blob into her perfect man...

Vi Liu's life is a mess. Having dropped out of college, she's stuck in a job she hates at a local hotel. Her ex-boyfriend has blocked her and she's lashing out at her family and co-workers.

One night, drunk outside a drag club, she stumbles across a mysterious sentient blob. She takes it home, where she feeds it a diet of sugary cereal and reality TV. Slowly, she realises that she can shape the blob into her perfect man: someone 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 a catalyst for further disaster? Sharp, strange and very funny, BLOB is a delightful story about growing up, fucking up and learning how to be a real person.

'Maggie Su's debut novel is nothing if not surprising.'

The Times
*Book of the Month
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'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

'Just brilliant -- 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

By: Maggie Su
Imprint: Sceptre
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781399731942
ISBN 10: 1399731947
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 28 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maggie Su is a writer and editor. She received a PhD in fiction from University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Indiana University. Her work has appeared in New England Review, Four Way Review, TriQuarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, Juked, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She currently lives in South Bend, Indiana with her partner, cat, and turtle.

Reviews for BLOB: A Love Story

An inventive, utterly unique debut. BLOB is not only a deliciously creepy, deeply entertaining take on modern relationships, it's also a moving look at new adulthood, and the inherent vulnerability that comes along with figuring out exactly who you're meant to be -- Kimberly King Parsons, author of <i>Black Light</i> Unique, heartfelt, and hilarious, BLOB is a delightfully inquisitive meditation on relationships and identity. What responsibility do we have in the creation of our relationships? What do we bring and leave behind? And what repercussions exist when we force ourselves into an identity instead of nurturing our real selves? This winsome book pulls off the impossible feat of examining our deepest existential questions with equal parts tenderness and droll -- Ling Ling Huang, author of <i>Natural Beauty</i>