02733cam a2200313 4500 759415590 TxAuBib 20181227120000.0 170929s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017038340 9780374261597 hbk. $26.00 0374261598 hbk. $26.00 40028417980 99977776276 (OCoLC)1004911431 DLC eng rda DLC BDX UOK OCLCO PAP DAD IK2 UAP OCLCF FMF GK8 JTH IGA T7R IUK IOD YDX OCLCO RB0 YUS UCW WLM UIU B@L TXBWN TJZ WLU NZAUC NDD TXKIL LKC Y#4 BLP VT2 UPM WTU OCLCQ OCLCO TUL TXM OCL CUY TXSCH YKC CTX DE# XFF OCLCO IZ7 HMO OCLCO TXSTC XUN OCLCO U3G NMW OCLCO PLS OCLCO JN3 FPJ TxGR TxAuBib Ma, Ling, 1983-, author. Severance [Book] : a novel / Ling Ma. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 291 pages ; 22 cm. Subtitle from dust jacket. 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. 20181227. Epidemics Fiction. Survival Fiction. Manhattan (New York, N.Y) Fiction. RV8