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Ling Ma, Nancy Wu (narrator): Severance (AudiobookFormat, 2018, Macmillan Audio)

9 hours 54 minutes

English language

Published Aug. 14, 2018 by Macmillan Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-4272-9861-4
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An offbeat office novel turns apocalyptic satire as a young woman transforms from orphan to worker bee to survivor

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 halt operations. The subways squeak 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 …

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Subjects

  • Contemporary
  • Science Fiction
  • Dystopian
  • Post Apocalyptic