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Just Finished: Severence by Ling Ma. Severance is not boring, or poorly written. It’s just, I don’t know...pointless. There is a really good story in there somewhere. It jumps around from past to present (which was actually well done) but I think it would’ve been better served as a linear story.
19 Αυγ 2018 · Ling Ma's shocking and ferocious new novel mashes up a zombie apocalypse story with the everyday tribulations of office life — you may run from zombies but you'll never escape middle...
14 Αυγ 2018 · Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Readers' Favorite Science Fiction (2018) Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads.
Jiayang Fan reviews “Severance,” a début novel by Ling Ma that ponders capitalism, immigration, and zombies.
I found the description of the fevered extremely jarring, since everyone's reaction to them is seeped in ableism, and I'm still thinking about this book as I progress through the podcast series from Nevada Humanities about its contents: https://www.nevadahumanities.org/severance-radio
30 Δεκ 2020 · Ling Ma, author of our December pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, recently answered questions submitted by readers about her novel, “Severance,” on Facebook.
28 Αυγ 2018 · The end of the world in Ling Ma’s novel Severance comes not with a bang, nor with a whimper, but a stream of misinformation, social media hysteria, and plenty of willful denial. If this sounds familiar, it’s far from dreary.
