Devastating to read during COVID-19, I couldn’t believe it was published in 2018. The horrifying but horribly accurate depiction of capitalism as a zombie curse, the lack of any grieving for the fevered as each system and individual is obsessed with keeping on, the heartbreaking choices of her immigrant parents and their loss with assimilation, the millennial flavor of obsessing with skin care as the world crumbles - I couldn’t put it down.
Time to reread my other favorite post-apocalypse book hinging on a deadly pandemic also written pre-COVID, The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele, to deal with the stress the ending Severance left me with!