5/10/2023 0 Comments Ling ma storiesI don’t normally dig post-apocalyptic books because they always seem to devolve into the same stomach-turning quagmires of lawlessness and starvation. After: Candace and a ragtag group of survivors flee west, trying to avoid encounters with the 99% of the world that the plague has reduced to (harmless) zombies-and scavenging for food, pills, and marijuana. Before: Candace Chen, a twenty-something year old in New York City, toils at a totally unglamorous book production job, so mired in the details of Bible manufacture (polyurethane and sateen, anyone?) that she doesn’t realize a sudden pandemic is ringing in the apocalypse. The story has two plotlines, a Before and After. And the book I loved most of all in 2018, the queen of the stack (if you will), is Severance. But the truth is, there are a few reads from this year that I absolutely adored- For Better and Worse and An American Marriage come to mind-above all the others. Look, I want to be a good book-mom here and say that I love all our selections equally.
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