“Severance” by Ling Ma “Severance,” published in August 2018, is eerily evocative of the COVID-19 pandemic that followed two years later. The book follows Candace Chen, a young woman who is a first-generation immigrant living and working in New York, through a post-apocalyptic tale of the fictional Shen Fever pandemic. Entirely isolated in New York,...

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