![]() So, when the Shen Fever strikes, wiping out the entire US – and possibly world – populations, excepting a handful, adult Candace feels scarcely less detached than she did before, when living a desultory millennial life in New York City. ![]() Hers is a chilly story of alienation and foreignness, as experienced by twenty-something Candace Chen, whose parents’ migration from China to Utah when she was a child has left her emotionally stranded and alone. (BBC’s Survivors, 1975, anyone?) Yet, familiar as these cultural tropes have become, Ling Ma approaches them afresh in her debut novel. ![]() Surely most of us have read or watched a high- or lower-brow version, from Cormac McCarthy to The Walking Dead. ![]() ![]() Hands up if you’ve never been infected by stories of post-apocalyptic survivalism or zombies. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 14 August 2018 ![]()
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