![]() ![]() She catalogues abandoned avenues and ransacked luxury stores in hopes that people elsewhere will respond with their own nostalgic or romanticized versions of the city. Alone in New York, Candace spends her days wandering through the city and taking photos to post on her blog under the pseudonym NY Ghost. When the city starts to crumble and all of her coworkers flee, Candace chooses to stay behind and work-in part because her only family is far away in China and in part because she finds comfort in the familiarity of her day-to-day routine. ![]() Instead, victims of the Fever are reduced to creatures of habit-they adhere mindlessly to their everyday grinds until they quite literally work themselves to death.īefore the Fever, Candace works for a Bible production company in New York that outsources its labor to Southeast Asia. The “fevered” who populate the city aren’t your classic teeth-gnashing, skin-peeling zombies. ![]() Severance chronicles the life of Candace Chen, an obedient worker bee who is one of the last people alive in New York City after the Shen Fever strikes. It is part satirical office drama, part immigrant narrative, part millennial bildungsroman-with a dash of zombie apocalypse. Ling Ma’s debut novel, Severance, transcends any typical classification. ![]()
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