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Severance by Ling Ma
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Memory (and its fracture) is key here - in Candace’s memories of her childhood before and after America, her mother’s early onset Alzheimer’s, the city she travels to based on someone else’s memories and descriptions of it, the mysterious sickness where the afflicted re-enact their routines and which is maybe triggered by nostalgia.