Shortlisted for the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Debut Speculative FictionĪ Chicago Review of BooksBest Book of 2018Ī Vulture Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2018Ī Book of the Month Club Selection for December 2018 Winner of the 2019 Friends of American Writers First Prize in Literatureįinalist for the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Winner of the 2019 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2019 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award A chapter of Severancereceived the 2015 Graywolf SLS Prize. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Vice, Playboy, Chicago Reader, Ninth Letterand other publications. Prior to graduate school she worked as a journalist and editor. She attended the University of Chicago and received an MFA from Cornell University. Ling Mawas born in Sanming, China and grew up in Utah, Nebraska and Kansas. Should she escape from her rescuers?Ī send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Severanceis a moving family story, a deadpan satire and a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps the world.Ĭandace joins a small group of survivors, led by the power-hungry Bob, on their way to the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine: her work, watching movies with her boyfriend, avoiding thoughts of her recently deceased Chinese immigrant parents.
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