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Severance A Novel
Severance A Novel
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Description: Maybe it's the end of the world but not for Candace Chen a millennial first - generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat wryly funny apocalyptic satire Severance." A stunning audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." Michael Schaub NPR. org A satirical spin on the end times - - kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers. - - Estelle Tang Elle Named A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker (" Books We Loved") * Elle * Marie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery 29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * Book Page * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * Huff Post * Electric Literature * A. V. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/ Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next Selection Candace Chen a millennial drone self - sequestered in a Manhattan office tower is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work troubleshoots the teen - targeted Gemstone Bible watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end - date payoff. Soon entirely alone still unfevered she photographs the eerie abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won t be able to make it on her own forever though. Enter a group of survivors led by the power - hungry IT tech Bob. They re traveling to a place called the Facility where Bob promises they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send - up and takedown of the rituals routines and missed opportunities of contemporary life Ling Ma's Severance is a moving family story a quirky coming - of - adulthood tale and a hilarious deadpan satire. Most important it's a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
Title: Severance A Novel
Author(s): Ma Ling
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250214997
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/7/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Maybe it's the end of the world but not for Candace Chen a millennial first - generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat wryly funny apocalyptic satire Severance." A stunning audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." Michael Schaub NPR. org A satirical spin on the end times - - kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers. - - Estelle Tang Elle Named A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker (" Books We Loved") * Elle * Marie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery 29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * Book Page * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * Huff Post * Electric Literature * A. V. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/ Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next Selection Candace Chen a millennial drone self - sequestered in a Manhattan office tower is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work troubleshoots the teen - targeted Gemstone Bible watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end - date payoff. Soon entirely alone still unfevered she photographs the eerie abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won t be able to make it on her own forever though. Enter a group of survivors led by the power - hungry IT tech Bob. They re traveling to a place called the Facility where Bob promises they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send - up and takedown of the rituals routines and missed opportunities of contemporary life Ling Ma's Severance is a moving family story a quirky coming - of - adulthood tale and a hilarious deadpan satire. Most important it's a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
Title: Severance A Novel
Author(s): Ma Ling
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250214997
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/7/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction