Born in Sanming, China, Ling grew up in Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas. She holds an MFA from Cornell University, where she also taught. Currently, she serve as an assistant professor at her alma mater, University of Chicago.
发表于2024-12-23
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图书标签: 小说 美国 科幻 英文原版 末日 华裔作家 女性 移民
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.
抑郁中坐等删失
评分末世病毒的侵袭 不如看到过于熟悉的坐标下城市衰败崩塌心悸 果然是生活化的场景最有冲击力 - To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?
评分打开本书的时候的那天恰好公司宣布WFH,一周之后读完觉得自己也成了一个fevered 在自己制定的routine里打圈圈,觉得厌烦但又无法逃脱
评分四星送给本书带来的四股近期Asian American文学的清流:一星给first-gen immigrant experience,二星给末日主题,三星给一颗不矫情的平常心,四星给为母则刚的世纪觉醒
评分挺好看的僵尸文学,真正的敌人不是病菌,而是capitalism、consummerism、corporate culture三大件。#没有烂尾!
Severance 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书