Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.Ĭandace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. An offbeat office novel turns apocalyptic satire as a young woman transforms from orphan to worker bee to survivorĬandace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine.
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