{"product_id":"severance-pb","title":"Severance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNPR * \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e(\"Books We Loved\") * \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eM\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003earie Claire * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAmazon Editors * \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e (Staff Favorites) * \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefinery29 *\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle *\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed *\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage *\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookish \u003c\/i\u003e* \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMental Floss * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffPost * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.V. Club * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJezebel * \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of 2018 * \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn Indie Next Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-- Michael Schaub, \u003ci\u003eNPR.org\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaybe 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, \u003ci\u003eSeverance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCandace 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCandace 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma's \u003ci\u003eSeverance \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLing Ma\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. She is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eSeverance\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. She lives in Chicago with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ling Ma","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46709861843229,"sku":"9781250214997","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250214997.jpg?v=1707329771","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/severance-pb","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}