Blob: A Love Story -- Maggie Su

\"There is so much at play in this wondrous novel. Vi struggling to place herself in any context that makes sense within the world earnestly leads us into a wild experiment to turn a blob into the man of her dreams and I was transfixed by her voice. This is a book that looks at identity and desire in profoundly interesting ways.\" -- Kevin Wilson bestselling author of Now Is Not the Time to Panic A humorous and deeply moving debut novel in the vein of Bunny and Convenience Store Woman about a young woman who tries to shape a sentient blob into her perfect boyfriend. The daughter of a Taiwanese father and white mother Vi Liu has never quite fit into her Midwestern college town. Aimless after getting dumped by her boyfriend and dropping out of college Vi works at the front desk of a hotel where she greets guests refills cucumber water samovars and tries to evade her bubbly blond coworker