'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*

'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

"Witty and wild ... a surprisingly moving and imaginative debut from a fiercely original new talent" - Harper's Bazaar

"The only fantastical element in Su's otherwise realistic universe, Bob's transformation from mute mound of flesh to gorgeous blond himbo is a delight . . . This is a sharp, funny and poignant look at what it means to connect with another being, and yourself" - New York Times

"A strange but uniquely beautiful concept of a love story that delves into care, compassion and what it is to be human." - Stylist

"Maggie Su's debut novel is nothing if not surprising" - The Times

"Dark fun . . . In Su's affecting Frankenstein story, the monster's transformation is the least surprising one" - Washington Post

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

"BLOB follows a young woman who discovers a sentient blob and tries to turn it into her ideal boyfriend. Now this is art! This is literature! More books about women dating weird objects they found in the street, please. BLOB hive rise up" - Lit Hub

"Comic, quirky and unlike any other novel" - Woman & Home

"Su's first novel, about a young woman who constructs her ideal mate (literally), is an entertaining, quirky mash-up of Frankenstein and Bridget Jones' Diary, made more substantive as a clever parable of self-discovery... [A] hilarious-and somehow also touching-debut" - Booklist

"In Su's marvelous debut, a Taiwanese American woman sculpts a seemingly perfect partner out of a sentient blob... Su's clever conceit provides a catalyst for Vi's revelatory introspection, as she faces her self-destructive tendencies and the difficulties of being human. The result is a top-notch tale of arrested development" - Publishers Weekly

"A funny and pathos-ridden tale of social awkwardness and self-realization; a modern, delayed coming-of-age... This quirky, funny, pained novel considers the challenge, for any of us, of becoming fully human" - Shelf Awareness

"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

"Funny, original, and charming" - Interview