Severance

Ling Ma

earliest edition we have, 2018 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018 291 pages

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 sw...

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Editions we hold

New York Ghost edition · 2021 · CulturBooks Verlag · 360 pages · 9783959881524
Severance edition · 2020 · Text Publishing Company · 304 pages · 9781922330642
Severance paperback · 2019 · Picador · 304 pages · 9781250214997
Severance edition · 2018 · Text Publishing Company · 304 pages · 9781925773279
Severance edition · 2018 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 304 pages · 9780374717117
Severance edition · 2018 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 291 pages · 9780374261597

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