{"product_id":"severance-a-novel","title":"Severance","description":"\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, Severance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring.\" ―Michael Schaub, NPR.org\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A satirical spin on the end times-- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” --Estelle Tang, Elle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker (\"Books We Loved\") * Elle * Marie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 *Bustle *Buzzfeed *BookPage *Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next Selection\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tide Turners Books \u0026 More","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48433707876607,"sku":"9781250214997","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/2968\/8575\/files\/9781250214997.jpg?v=1777077604","url":"https:\/\/tideturnersbooks.com\/products\/severance-a-novel","provider":"Tide Turners Books \u0026 More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}