Science fiction
Literary
Humor
2018
Severance by Ling Ma
Published in Spanish as Liquidación
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine: her work, watching movies with her boyfriend, avoiding thoughts of her recently deceased Chinese…
What it is
Comedy with teeth · melancholic and unhurried
What happens in it
Outbreak
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Structure
- Two timelines
- Who tells it
- First person
- Its world
- Our world, slightly bent
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you like dry, sideways humour
- you like a book that stays with you for days
- you like a book that makes you think
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