Severance by Ling Ma (2018), 291 pages
The
novel (written before COVID), follows Candance Chen, a millennial, dealing with
the fallout of a mass pandemic. While some parts of the novel are eerily
prescient and disturbing, it is overall quite boring. Chen is deeply
uninteresting and despite going through some hard tragedies, doesn't
particularly engage with her life. It is a bit maddening. She finally takes
some initiative at the end, but even that is lowkey dull. This book could have
been really interesting, but it is not.
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