Severance by Ling Ma

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English - February 17, 2021 17:00 - 10 minutes - 7.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Enjoy our presentation of Severance written by Ling Ma and published by Picador/Macmillan. After an epidemic causes most New Yorkers to flee, Candace Chen stays behind and continues her routine: going to work, getting paid and blogging about the deserted city. Eventually, though, Candace will have to leave--putting her at the mercy of a power-hungry IT specialist named Bob.

Severance was awarded the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the 2019 NYPL Young Lions Prize. It was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Hemingway award.

Please be advised, Severance contains depictions or discussions of death.

This title is available as an ebook on Libby by Overdrive. https://maryland.overdrive.com/maryland-southernmarylandregional/content/media/3750131

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Music: Beach Bum Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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