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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