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Ma ling severance6/2/2023 That’s why I loved this book-it’s not so much scary as absurd, and more thoughtful than action-driven. But in Severance, the end of the world is signaled not by tribes of fearsome cannibals, but by the gradual dismantling of corporate life emails go unanswered, office branches are closed, and one by one, the great tentpoles of capitalism fall. I don’t normally dig post-apocalyptic books because they always seem to devolve into the same stomach-turning quagmires of lawlessness and starvation. After: Candace and a ragtag group of survivors flee west, trying to avoid encounters with the 99% of the world that the plague has reduced to (harmless) zombies-and scavenging for food, pills, and marijuana. Before: Candace Chen, a twenty-something year old in New York City, toils at a totally unglamorous book production job, so mired in the details of Bible manufacture (polyurethane and sateen, anyone?) that she doesn’t realize a sudden pandemic is ringing in the apocalypse. The story has two plotlines, a Before and After. And the book I loved most of all in 2018, the queen of the stack (if you will), is Severance. But the truth is, there are a few reads from this year that I absolutely adored- For Better and Worse and An American Marriage come to mind-above all the others. Look, I want to be a good book-mom here and say that I love all our selections equally.
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