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ISBN: 0374261598
Title: Severance Pdf A Novel
Author: Ling Ma
Published Date: 2018-08-14
Page: 304

An Amazon Best Book of August 2018: You might read this book for its wickedly serrated, apocalyptic humor: two driven young women continue to show up at their Manhattan publishing jobs even as they’re among the last people left in the city. You might go in for the love story of two twentysomethings who meet over cigarettes on a shared fire escape. Or, you might pick the book up to experience how deftly the author captures the violent ennui of youth in the character of Candace Chen. Candace avoids overthinking how to build a meaningful life – and tries not disappoint her immigrant parents – while working in the production department of a publishing house and, later, photographing the ruins of New York for her anonymous blog. Certainly, fans of dystopian fiction will savor the understated horror of how the world ends. Most everyone contracts a mysterious disease that impels them to continuously reenact a common routine from their life. A particularly gruesome scene involves a family going through the motions of dinner as they physically waste away: the emaciated mom sets the table as the rest of the family sits down in their places to vigorously lick the plates and mouth the cutlery…only to return the plates to the cupboard and repeat the scene again. It’s these zombies that Candace and the small group of survivors she joins encounter on supply raids – and who are ‘mercifully’ shot dead by Bob, the group’s ruthless leader. Severance raises questions about how loneliness shapes identity, the hilarity and horror of the human capacity to normalize, and the stupefying effect of an urge for comfort (while also digging a well of empathy for those drawn to the familiar). Funny and upsetting, with a strange and noble stillness at its core, this deceptively light read will leave readers wanting the story to continue even after learning Candace’s big secret. --Katy Ball Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for FictionA New York Times Notable Book of 2018An Elle Best Book of 2018A Marie Claire Best Book of 2018A Buzzfeed Best Book of 2018A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018A Jezebel Favorite Book of 2018A Bustle Best Book of 2018An Electric Lit Best Novel of 2018A Lit Hub Best Book of 2018A BookPage Best Book of 2018A Bookish Best Book of 2018A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018A Chicago Review of BooksBest Book of 2018A HuffPost Best Fiction Book of 2018An Electric Literature Best Book of 2018An Amazon Editors' Top 100 Book of 2018An A.V. Club Favorite Book of 2018A Jezebel Favorite Book of 2018A Vulture Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2018Longlisted for the Aspen Words PrizeA Book of the Month Club Selection for December 2018Shortlisted for the 2018 Chicago Review of Books AwardNew York Magazine Approval Matrix, "Highbrow Brilliant"An Indie Next Great Reads SelectionA Southern Living Best New Book of Summer 2018A Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2018An Alma Favorite Book for FallA Buzzfeed Summer Reading PickA Nylon Best Book of Summer 2018A Vulture Best Book of the SummerA Chicago Magazine Summer Reading PickA Library Journal Summer Fall Best Debut Novel An April Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2018A BookBub Laugh-Out-Loud Book of 2018A Library Journal Debut With CredentialsA Bookish Summer Must-Read FictionA Refinery29 Best New Book of August 2018A Greenlight Bookstore Pick in Brooklyn Paper “Severance is the most gorgeously written novel I’ve read all year; when I finished it, I immediately picked it up and read it all over again.” ―Jane Hu, The New Republic“Severance is the best work of fiction I’ve read yet about the millennial condition―the alienation and cruelty that comes with being a functional person under advanced global capitalism, and the compromised pleasures and irreducibly personal meaning to be found in claiming some stability in a terrible world. I love how, in this novel, doom is inevitable, and yet it comes so slowly you might not even notice it. Ling Ma has written one of my favorite novels of the year.” ―Jia Tolentino, New Yorker staff writer“A satirical spin on the end times―kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” ―Estelle Tang, Elle"[A] standout debut. Satiric and playful―as well as scary . . . Ling Ma is an assured and inventive storyteller [and her novel] reflects on the nature of human identity and how much the repetitive tasks we perform come to define who we are. . . . A sardonic wake-up call." ―Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, National Public Radio"[A] semi-surreal sendup of a workplace and its utopia of rules, not unlike Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End . . . Laced within Ma's dystopian narrative is an arresting encapsulation of a first-generation immigrant's nostalgia for New York . . . Severance evokes traces of . . . Joan Didion." ―Antonia Hitchens, The New York Times Book Review"How do you fit a zombie novel inside an immigrant story inside a coming-of-age tale? Ling Ma . . . accomplished this feat in her gripping and original turducken of a novel . . . Fascinating." ―Trine Tsouderos, The Chicago Tribune“Ma’s prose is, for the most part, understated and restrained, somewhat in the manner of Kazuo Ishiguro . . . Ma is at her most deft when depicting this kind of severance: the amputation of the immigrant’s past, preserved like a phantom limb whose pain is haunted with absence.” ―Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker“Tense and elegant, Ma’s writing here masterfully treads the line between genre fiction and literature. Part bildungsroman, part horror flick, Severance thrillingly morphs into a novel about self-worth, about the kinds of value we place on our own lives.” ―Larissa Pham, The Nation“Ling Ma’s extraordinary debut encompasses many genres and might just be the first and only coming-of-age, immigrant experience, anti-capitalist zombie novel you’ll ever need." ―The Cut"Re-invents the office satire and delivers a hilariously searing critique of who we are and how we survive in a modern world. Ma’s caustic humor and incredibly smart commentary on late capitalism compares our adherence to routine and groupthink to a terminal infection. Her precise language, original voice, and use of all-too-relatable details inform the debut’s deadpan depiction of a society teetering on the edge." ―Lauren Sarazen, Shondaland“Ma’s writing about the jargon of globalized capitalism has a mix of humor and pathos that reminded me a little of Infinite Jest and a little of George Saunders.” ―Emily Witt, The New Yorker“Ling Ma’s Severance . . . sneaks up on you from all sides: it’s an affecting portrayal of loss, a precise fictional evocation of group dynamics, and a sharp character study of its protagonist, Candace Chen. It also features one of the most hauntingly plausible end-of-the-world scenarios I’ve encountered in recent fiction, one which folds in enough hints of the real to be particularly unsettling . . . A monumentally unnerving novel.” ―Tobias Carroll, Tor.com"Ling Ma delivers a fascinating coming-of-age novel, one full of millennial culture, post-apocalyptic adventures, and, perhaps most exciting of all, a zombie-like populace . . . Severance wonderfully demonstrates how the lifestyles we lead now can have a great impact on our future . . . it’s all done with a pleasingly light touch, despite the story being heavy with death and addressing the pressing issues of our times.” ―M. M. Silva, Zyzzyva"Shocking and ferocious . . . a fierce debut from a writer with seemingly boundless imagination. . . a wicked satire of consumerism and work culture . . . It's a stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring: This is the way the world ends, Ma seems to be saying, not with a bang but a memo." ―Michael Schaub, NPR.org"A suspenseful adventure that doubles as a sly critique of late capitalism." ―Boris Kachka, Vulture "Funny, frightening, and touching.... Ling Ma manages the impressive trick of delivering a bildungsroman, a survival tale, and satire of late capitalist millennial angst in one book, and Severance announces its author as a supremely talented writer to watch." ―The Millions“As debut novels go, Severance is about as original and assured as they come.” ―Laura Pearson, The Chicago Tribune "If satirist Gary Shteyngart wrote his version of 2015 end-of-world breakout Station Eleven, it would be this compulsively readable book." ―Mind Body Green“A deeply unsettling millennial joyride toward the end of days.” ―Crime Time Podcast“Ling Ma’s debut novel tackles countless themes―immigration, work culture, family, capitalism, and the confusing aimlessness of your early 20s―with a dry wit that keeps the horrific digestible, the repetitive laughable, and the pages turning.” ―Marie Claire "Astounding . . . Ma’s engrossing, masterfully written debut transforms the mundane into a landscape of tricky memory, where questions of late-stage capitalism, immigration, displacement and motherhood converge in such a sly build-up as to render the reader completely stunned." ―BookPage "A brilliantly unsettling dystopian novel following a young woman who somehow escapes a fever epidemic and joins a cult-like group of fellow survivors." ―Bust"The book I loved most of all in 2018, the queen of the stack (if you will), is Severance . . . It’s I Am Legend for the plugged-in, globally conscious, thinking woman. I could not be more obsessed." ―Siobhan Jones, Book of the Month Club "Ma's writing is compelling and cogent, perfectly satirizing a world that often feels beyond parody." ―Nylon“[Severance is] a book about work that puts the work in the context of globalization, a book that is mordant and sad and full of quicksilver allegories. I loved that book so much.” ―Lydia Kiesling, The Millions "Ma's language does so much in this book, and its precision, its purposeful specificity, implicates an entire generation. But what is most remarkable is the gentleness with which Ma describes those working within the capital-S System. What does it mean if a person finds true comfort working as a 'cog' in a system they disagree with? Is that comfort any less real?" ―Buzzfeed "An apocalypse novel that could be happening right now. It’s funny except when it’s horrifying; it’s horrifying except when it’s oddly comforting. That ambivalent tonal mixture is just one piece of what makes Ma’s writing so unique and captivating. " ―Jonathan Woollen, Politics and Prose Bookstore"What Ma accomplishes with her fever-stricken world is what sets Severance apart. Rather than take the end of days as a chance for the usual pontifications on societal collapse―most seemingly ignorant that we built society from nothing the first time, and we would certainly do it again―Ma uses the disaster trope for interrogation on a scale small enough to lacerate.” ―B. David Zarley, Paste“A satiric vision that takes in late capitalism, the immigrant experience, and the anomie of early adulthood." ―Library of America“With exquisite pacing, Ling Ma alternates between Candace’s precarious present and her childhood as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, and contemplates the possibility of a future in a lonely, blasted world. Severance is a scathing portrait of a society collapsing under its own ungovernable appetites, as well as a haunting meditation on family inheritance and its loss.” ―Claire Fallon, HuffPost"Severance meets and exceeds the promise of [its] exciting description. In many ways, Severance is a novel of ideas―it artfully blends/bends genre, it boldly indicts global capitalism, consumerism, and materialism―but every one of its intellectual aims is deeply grounded in the richly felt experiences of the narrator. As a reader, this novel made me dizzy with fear for our world, today, and at the same time, it made me worry about the well-being of the compelling Candace Chen and her companions. And it made me laugh. It made me laugh a whole lot." ―Joseph Scapellato, Electric Lit"For readers who love their literary fiction with a dash of apocalypse, this one's for you." ―Bookish"Severance shares as much with Then We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris’ meditation on the failure of an advertising agency, as it does with The Walking Dead; Ma plays with voice, alternating between the first-person singular and plural to show how easily an individual comes to identify as part of a collective and how hard it is to have that group fall apart. But, like 28 Days Later, it uses the end of the world to examine what is really important . . . If zombie stories are about the terrible power of the mob, Severance asks what kind of life is left to anyone who tries to stand against it." ―Samantha Nelson, A.V. Club"Takes the milieu of the film Frances Ha and mixes in a subdued zombie apocalypse. . . A clever and funny novel that depicts modern urban ennui and a speculative post-apocalyptic world equally well, while using its central contagion as a metaphor to critique late capitalism, globalization, and nostalgia." ―Matt Stowe, Brooklyn Paper"I consumed [Severance] like a hungry fungal spore in two days." ―Molly Young“Ma is satiric about the workplace, in a way that’s less snobbish than Nell Zink but just as funny and imaginative . . . All the best metaphors in the book are cleverly crafted harbingers . . . Her dexterity in joking about capitalism rivals the skill of the great Richard Powers.” ―Kaitlin Philips, BookForum"[An] entertaining, thought-provoking debut novel . . . It’s not the first time somebody illuminated the similarities between out consumer-driven society and zombie-like behavior (hi Mr. Romero!), but it’s a powerfully-delivered metaphor all the same . . . expect a sharply-written wake-up call that will likely be enjoyed by many who will miss the larger point: put down the phone, put away the credit cards, and try to make connections with people instead of brands and objects." ―Blu Gilliand, Cemetery Dance "Severance is its own entity: an end of the world novel with two or three other novels bursting at the seams to break out. . . A dizzying, monumental read. It’s funny, it’s sad―and sometimes both at the same time . . . Severance is the nearly perfect cautionary tale of consumer culture and society’s fascination with the not so distant past . . . It’s also just a really fun read with literary panache. For either reason, this is a novel you should sit down and spend some time with. You won’t regret it, even if you’ve already read Station Eleven and have had it up to here with all of the copycats. It’s that good. Really." ―Zachary Houle, Medium“Listen, are we just suggesting Severance to everyone, because everyone in the office read and loved it? Yes, sure. But also, post-apocalyptic novels are perfect crucibles for imagining what happens when the rules we operate under break down.” ―Electric Lit"Ling Ma's novel Severance is an astute combination of workplace novel and apocalyptic tale. Smart and filled with humanity, this debut is one of the year's best books." ―Large-Hearted Boy“This depiction of the Midwest feels unexpectedly of our time, at a moment when coastal nostalgia for the heartland has fixated as much on frontier sentimentalism (prairie dresses, artisanal foods) as it has dead mall videos and ruin porn.” ―Meghan O’Gieblyn, Lit Hub"A radically understated debut novel . . . searingly underplayed. . . . There's a power to the restraint, and an elegance to the understatement: It grinds you down slowly, the way riding the New York subway does, so that you've barely noticed that you're in the middle of something terrible before you're used to it. It's apocalypse by commute. And in that banality, there is enormous force." ―Constance Grady, Vox"This quirky satire of office culture . . . imagines what would happen to a Chinese American workaholic if Manhattan were hit by a sudden apocalypse." ―Chicago Magazine“An artfully drawn satire, the kind with humor so dry you almost wonder if it’s there.” ―Ceridwen Christensen, Barnes and Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog"Blends two distinct subgenres into a wholly original narrative." ―Vol. 1 Brooklyn "A biting indictment of late-stage capitalism and a chilling vision of what comes after . . . [Ma] knows her craft, and it shows. [Her protagonist] is a wonderful mix of vulnerability, wry humor, and steely strength. . . . Ma also offers lovely meditations on memory and the immigrant experience. Smart, funny, humane, and superbly well-written." ―Kirkus, starred review "Embracing the genre but somehow transcending it, Ma creates a truly engrossing and believable anti-utopian world. Ma's extraordinary debut marks a notable creative jump by playing on the apocalyptic fears many people share today." ―Booklist, starred review "In this shrewd postapocalpytic debut, Ma imagines the end times in the world of late capitalism, marked by comforting, debilitating effects of nostalgia on its characters . . . The novel's strength lies in Ma's accomplished handling of the walking dead conceit to reflect on what constitutes the good life. This is a clever and dextrous debut." ―Publishers Weekly "A smart, searing exposé on the perils of consumerism, Google overload, and millennial malaise . . . an already established audience will be eager to discover this work." ―Library Journal"For those of us who have felt trapped in jobs we hate, the walking dead in Ling Ma’s new dystopian novel Severance may seem all too familiar . . . Severance is a call to action against letting the comforts of rituals stop you from going after what you want ― whether that’s leaving a toxic job or escaping the apocalypse." ―Monica Torres, Ladders“In a breathtaking mash-up of now and just a hair beyond now, Ling Ma’s apocalypse glistens with terror, humor, anger, and humanity. I promise, you will not be able to stop reading this ingeniously constructed and electrifyingly harrowing book.” ―Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark “As a look into where our overconsumption might lead us, Ling Ma’s Severance rings terrifyingly true. More than that, it’s a moving meditation on home, belonging, and life itself―all rendered in cool yet affecting prose that’s too good not to keep reading.” ―Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin “My autocorrect keeps putting ‘King’ Ma instead of Ling Ma, but maybe that’s on the mark: she totally rules. Severance is like nothing else around: a witty workplace novel and a terrifying plague yarn, an immigrant story and a sort of homecoming, full of Chinese whispers and New York ghosts.” ―Ed Park, author of Personal Days “Ling Ma has given us a terrifyingly plausible vision of our collective future, one in which our comforts have become pathology and our habits death―and, in her protagonist, a hero who doesn’t know if she should be seeking salvation or oblivion. And yet, somehow, Severance could easily be the funniest book of the year. It’s a brilliant, deadpan novel of survival, in this world and in the precarious world to come.” ―J. Robert Lennon, author of Broken River

Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize, A New York Times Notable Book of 2018, An Indie Next Selection

A Best Book of 2018 at Elle, Marie Claire, Refinery29, Bustle, Buzzfeed, BookPage, Bookish, Mental Floss, Chicago Review of Books, HuffPost, Electric Literature, Amazon Editors', A.V. Club, Jezebel, Vulture

"A fierce debut from a writer with seemingly boundless imagination. . . A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." ―Michael Schaub, NPR.org

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.

Good but Artsy Prose, (reader be warned) 4.6 Stars and rounded up.This is not a zombie story with flesh-eating undead. Instead, this post-apocalyptic novel turns out to be an exploration of attachment to the past, and the sense of emptiness when one is cut off from it. While there is understated satire, the humor is the sort that makes me me wince rather than chuckle - in the same way that awkward situations in some sitcoms or Woody Allen movies might. The book is also a beautifully written love letter to the New York City of 2011, as experienced by a young, professional, single woman. Be ready for lots of flashbacks to scenes of life in the city, filled with the confusion, loneliness, awkwardness and happiness experienced by the protagonist. The prose can get a little artsy at times. If you are looking for the pulse-pounding pace common to the Zombie Apocalypse genre then the book will seem slow. There is a plague that is busily wiping out humanity. People who fall sick become mindless automatons (but not really zombies) and society has collapsed. There are few survivors and our heroine falls in with a group heading west. All is not well in the group dynamics. The main tension in the plot comes from the somewhat creepy struggle between characters rather than a struggle for survival or action sequences.Bottom line: I liked the book but would hesitate to recommend it without caveats to someone who is a fan of ZA or PostApoc fiction. This is not a harrowing tale of survival. Be aware that the style is artistic and evokes a sort of hipster-ish young-in-The-City vibe, and that the main themes of the book have to do with commentary on society, loss, remembrance and attachment to the past. If you are down with reading something that seems to be - by deliberate intention - artistically written, and you like deep character development, then I think you will enjoy!It’s okay... I feel pretty “meh” about this novel. It’s not that it’s bad or uninteresting, it just maybe wasn’t for me. As the blurb says, it IS dark and a little satirical, but even not typically being a reader of this kind of novel, it felt like a pretty standard post-apocalyptic dystopian novel. Character-wise, I didn’t feel like I really got to know any of the characters very well, even Candace, the main character from whose perspective we read the story. Everyone felt a little like a trope and so I couldn’t really bring myself to care about any of them. This novel reminds me of those teen horror movies from the late 90s in the darkness of the humor and the themes.Style-wise, I wasn’t a fan of the lack of quotation marks to denote speech. Maybe I’m traditional but it would have been helpful in differentiating Candace’s internal and external dialogues. And perhaps, or not perhaps, it is likely that this style was implemented intentionally, maybe as some way of further confusing Candace’s perception and reality, and emphasizing the dreamscape nature of this book- given the manifestation that Shen Fever takes and the main character’s tendency to fall into a trance-like state in the face of routine. Whatever the case, I wasn’t a fan of that style.As a lover of romance, I was interested in Candace and Jonathan’s “love story” such as it was. The “love scenes” if you can call them that are THE LEAST sexy scenes you will EVER read and that adds to the dark humor of the entire novel. I mean: “ he handled me as if separating egg whites from yolk,” just tells you all you need to know about the strangeness and awkwardness.Overall, I think this book was neither amazing nor was it terrible. I didn’t especially enjoy it, but I don’t regret reading it either. It felt like a story that had been told before and for someone who isn’t into this genre, I’m still unconvinced. I think this would be a good addition for someone with a post-dystopian fiction collection.Chillingly portrays post-apocalyptic internal landscape What would it be like if you were one of the few people left on earth after a world-wide epidemic? Hollywood wants to show you with images; Ling Ma takes you inside the head of a very believable protagonist instead, and it makes for a more lasting impact. Ma portrays convincingly the time lag between the beginning of the end and the realization that the world as we know it is irrevocably broken and gone, and the complications of figuring out what to do, where to go and who to trust. One of the best novels I’ve read in the past ten years, and I read a lot.

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