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发表于2024-11-22
Severance pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
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.
打開本書的時候的那天恰好公司宣布WFH,一周之後讀完覺得自己也成瞭一個fevered 在自己製定的routine裏打圈圈,覺得厭煩但又無法逃脫
評分四星送給本書帶來的四股近期Asian American文學的清流:一星給first-gen immigrant experience,二星給末日主題,三星給一顆不矯情的平常心,四星給為母則剛的世紀覺醒
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評分反資本主義和消費主義的內核,這個shen fever實在太像COVID. 前半部分因為結構創造齣的神秘感在最後沒有payoff的感覺
評分四星送給本書帶來的四股近期Asian American文學的清流:一星給first-gen immigrant experience,二星給末日主題,三星給一顆不矯情的平常心,四星給為母則剛的世紀覺醒
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Severance pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024