Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su
Yes, this is literally a story about an amorphous blob, and yes the main character falls in love with it. Or, at least tries to. Kinda. I think it goes without saying that finding a blob with black, beady eyes in the dark alley of a drag show bar one night and taking it home and teaching it to be your perfect boyfriend once it gains sentience is the definition of delulu. In her defense, it’s a result of growing up the daughter of a Taiwanese father and a white mother in a Midwestern college town, never fitting in, and an ex-boyfriend unfriending her. Which is why our girl Vi has a glimmer of hope once all the sugary cereal and pop culture she’s been feeding the blob turns it into a Hollywood handsome white man. But, like, it’s a blob deep down, sis. —Erica Ezeifedi