Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Kirkus Prize (Fiction)Fiction | 2018 | Winner |
About This Book
Candace Chen, a millennial New Yorker, documents the collapse of society during a strange pandemic that causes victims to robotically repeat routine activities. Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction.
About the Author
Ling MaUS
Ling Ma is a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer born in Sanming, China in 1983, raised in the United States. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2022 for *Bliss Montage*, a collection of stories exploring diaspora, desire, and the uncanny. Her debut novel *Severance* (2018), a satirical apocalyptic novel, became a cult classic.
