Neurodharma by rick hanson5/26/2023 Suddenly "Shen Fever" sweeps the world, causing the infected to repeat their daily motions in a fevered daze. She dreams of joining the glamorous higher-ups but doesn't quite fit in she dreams of a future with her boyfriend, but their relationship is falling apart. I didn't know what to do with this book in the best possible way.Ĭandace Chen works at an unfulfilling job in a publishing company in New York City selling gemstone-encrusted Bibles. By focusing on the Before (infinitely ripe with life) and the After (quiet, still and lonely with jagged endings), Ling Ma captures what it might feel like to observe the leftovers of the world, while living with a deep understanding that you yourself are left over too. Severance plays though Candace's life, hovering over the murkiness of her parents' immigrant experiences and the familial obligations they are both bound to and let fray. We follow her through the near past, working in a comfortable but soul-less corporate job in Times Square trying to fill in the emptiness left behind by both of her parents' deaths, and through the present, traveling with other survivors as they try to comprehend and make reason out of their own survival. In Ling Ma's Severance, Candace Chen is one of the sole human survivors left after an epidemic flattens the human population.
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