A review by ambercchen
Severance by Ling Ma

4.0

it was really uncanny to read this in 2023 when this was published in 2018, really haunting to see what was true about human response to pandemic but the way shen fever embodied itself is something i’ll be thinking about… the structure added a lot to the story, esp with the moments when i couldn’t immediately recognize what timeline candace was in. very fascinating in an ethnic existential sense in context with capitalist realism. a lot of jumbled thoughts!