Booksology 
Resignation by Ling Ma
retirement Candace Chen is a millennial woman who uses routines to protect herself from the fear of the outside world. When Shenfever destroys New York City, Candice continues to head to the office like a hardworking worker bee. Despite the city emptying her around her and the metro system is down, Candice continues to faithfully document her publishing work at the Manhattan office tower, where she blogs about her experience under the name “NY Ghost.”
Candice quickly gets used to spending her days completely isolated from human contact. But she can’t escape the city alone. When she finally leaves, it is with the help of other survivors heading to a place called the institution. The facility promises to rebuild the world like it used to be. But is that possible? As a result, Candice has experienced something, but is that even what she wants, especially when she knows that her peers don’t have her greatest benefits in her mind?
retirement It’s not your typical zombie novel. Rather than suffering from fever that makes people violent and infuriate, this is a world where people are sick with illness that force people to repeat the most commonplace everyday life in endless ways. It is a eschatological vision of a future that challenges the way we live our lives, what we think is important, and (of course) the nature of capitalism and corporate America. For me, that zombie apocalypse vision is much more unstable. These people are not troubled by passion. They resigned and are sick.
Maybe in the future, this dark version of America doesn’t seem to have much to do with reality, but for now… there’s something very moving about reading novels that read how commonplace Apocalypse can feel.
retirement It’s not just pages and pages that are disappointing. This is a really interesting and interesting novel.
So this word seems to be falling apart around us, and we continue to act as if everything is completely normal.
