After an epidemic causes most New Yorkers to flee, Candace Chen stays behind and continues her routine: going to work, getting paid and blogging about the deserted city. Eventually, though, Candace will have to leave--putting her at the mercy of a power-hungry IT specialist named Bob.
Enjoy our presentation of Severance written by Ling Ma and published by Picador/Macmillan. After an epidemic causes most New Yorkers to flee, Candace Chen stays behind and continues her routine: going to work, getting paid and blogging about the deserted city. Eventually, though, Candace will have to leave--putting her at the mercy of a power-hungry IT specialist named Bob.
Severance was awarded the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the 2019 NYPL Young Lions Prize. It was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Hemingway award.
Please be advised, Severance contains depictions or discussions of death.
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