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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.… (más)
susanbooks: Ma takes Whitehead's neoliberal zombie narrative further, making for a more satisfying read, but I'm not sure I'd have appreciated Ma's without Whitehead's.
Tal vez sea el fin del mundo, pero no para Candace Chen. Al menos no hasta que cobre el dinero que le prometieron si sigue yendo a la oficina para suplir las bajas de sus colegas enfermos. ¿Cómo una infección de origen chino va a impedir que cumpla con su labor? Hasta que se da cuenta de que es la única habitante de Nueva York.
Huérfana y sin casa a la que regresar, Candace abandona entonces su ciudad, mientras a su alrededor la Fiebre Shen es, definitivamente, más que una gripe y ha convertido a los contagiados en autómatas: hombres en traje envían correos de forma compulsiva, amas de casa preparan la mesa del comedor en un bucle infinito, dependientas doblan la ropa de la tienda en la que trabajan una y otra y otra vez. Hasta que mueren. Por suerte, Candace no es la única sobreviviente de la pandemia: están Bob y Janelle y Adam y Rachel y Genevieve y Ashley y Evan y Todd. Junto a ellos, se adentrará en el corazón del país y se verá obligada a decidir qué hacer con el secreto que guarda en su interior.
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.
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Huérfana y sin casa a la que regresar, Candace abandona entonces su ciudad, mientras a su alrededor la Fiebre Shen es, definitivamente, más que una gripe y ha convertido a los contagiados en autómatas: hombres en traje envían correos de forma compulsiva, amas de casa preparan la mesa del comedor en un bucle infinito, dependientas doblan la ropa de la tienda en la que trabajan una y otra y otra vez. Hasta que mueren. Por suerte, Candace no es la única sobreviviente de la pandemia: están Bob y Janelle y Adam y Rachel y Genevieve y Ashley y Evan y Todd. Junto a ellos, se adentrará en el corazón del país y se verá obligada a decidir qué hacer con el secreto que guarda en su interior.