Severance by Ling Ma

<p>Enjoy our presentation of <i>Severance </i>written by Ling Ma  and published by Picador/Macmillan. After an epidemic causes most New Yorkers to flee, Candace Chen stays behind and continues her routine: going to work, getting paid and blogging about the deserted city. Eventually, though, Candace will have to leave--putting her at the mercy of a power-hungry IT specialist named Bob.</p><p><i>Severance </i>was awarded the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the 2019 NYPL Young Lions Prize. It was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Hemingway award.<br /><br />Please be advised, <i>Severance </i>contains depictions or discussions of death.<br /><br />This title is available as an ebook on Libby by Overdrive. <a href="https://maryland.overdrive.com/maryland-southernmarylandregional/content/media/3750131">https://maryland.overdrive.com/maryland-southernmarylandregional/content/media/3750131</a></p><p> Please visit <a href="https://calvert-library-book-bites.simplecast.com/episodes/www.calvertlibrary.info"><strong>www.calvertlibrary.info</strong></a> for more information.</p><p>Music:  Beach Bum Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)<br />Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License<br /><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a><br /> </p>