Severance Severance

Severance

    • 3.9 • 54 Ratings
    • $14.99

    • $14.99

Publisher Description

"Narrator Nancy Wu delivers an outstanding performance of this cheeky satirical novel...Listeners will be entertained by the world building; cast of amusing, eccentric characters; and bizarre charm of the aloof heroine." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner

Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.

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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
NW
Nancy Wu
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:54
hr min
RELEASED
2018
August 14
PUBLISHER
Macmillan Audio
SIZE
506.1
MB

Customer Reviews

chris paully ,

What a Joy!

This book was a sheer delight joining Candace at the end of the world. So perfectly written and more perfectly narrated by Nancy Wu - I am in awe.

TJ137281819384 ,

Boring, poorly written

Had to read this for a class. Regret picking this out of the options. Was incredibly boring, the most boring book I’ve ever read/ listened to. The way the story is constantly jumping to random past events and then present events was executed so incredibly poorly. Book plot was a great idea just executed so bad. I would rather watch paint dry then re read this book.

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