Booksology 
Lin Ma’s retirement
The corporate drudgery, late-stage capitalism, and the send-off and dismantling of adult lethargy that are familiar to many of us, Lin Ma’s retirement allowance It offers a biting and tense satire featuring an eerily monotonous pandemic.
Self-isolated in a Manhattan office tower, millennial publishing drone Candace Chen is so focused on her daily life that she barely notices a Biblical plague spreading across New York. But then it spreads beyond the city. The family runs away. Businesses come to a standstill. The subway screeches to a halt. In A Heartbeat, Candace is uninfected but lonely, wandering the streets of a quiet, abandoned city to photograph a quiet, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.
Even the sociopathic Candace can’t be content, much less survive alone forever. Enter a group of survivors led by power-hungry IT technician Bob. They are traveling to a place called the Facility, where Bob promises they have everything they need to start society anew. However, Candace harbors a secret that Bob knows will be exploited. Should she run away from her rescuers or cling to the only community left?
Zombie novels have a long history as allegories depicting social evil and ignorance. Although the zombies in this novel don’t chase down their prey while grunting, “Brrreeeein,” they’re scary for other disturbing reasons. Throughout this survivalist story, Candace’s observations about her absent-minded approach to life, her haphazard isolation, and her parents’ assimilation after immigration take this zombie story to the kind of irreverent and highly messy brain space that Destroyers crave.
