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Ling Ma: Severance (Hardcover, 2018, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 4 stars

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. …

Review of 'Severance' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

What makes this zombie apocalypse satire interesting, to me, is how it's grounded in the very specific circumstances of Candace's Chinese-American upbringing and moreover in her experience in the specialty bible production business. Oddly, the book is most vivid not in the zombie scenes but in the parts dealing with the details of book ordering and production, including the site visit to the Shenzhen factory where the bibles are made.