num_pages: 291
description: Candace Chen a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. Soon entirely alone still unfevered she photographs the eerie abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.Candace wont be able to make it on her own forever though. Enter a group of survivors led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. Theyre 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 Mas Severance is a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale and satire.
language: English
title: Severance
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux