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In Maggie Su’s novel “Blob,” a young woman transforms a gelatinous splotch into an object of affection, with mixed results.

That first scan showed “a promising blob on the bottom of my right hemisphere ... role in defining the function of these regions in human face recognition.” Tsao and Freiwald’s subsequent ...

Eventually she names the blob Bob, and eventually Bob the blob turns into Bob the human, with “muscular tree-trunk legs, washboard abs, hips,” great equipment, blue eyes and movie-star good ...

In this interview, author Maggie Su discusses how a 10-page short story turned into her debut novel, Blob: A Love Story.