We’d seen it done in the movies, though no one could say which one exactly. We found one another after fleeing New York for the safer pastures of the countryside.
And in the Beginning, there were eight of us, then nine-that was me-a number that would only decrease. This book was published in 2018, but it’s as if Ling Ma is a time traveler who came to warn us:Īfter the End came the Beginning. Before that, though, we also see her and others deliberate about whether masks are effective, including the N95 variety, whether working from home will affect productivity, whether it’s safer to leave New York and whether having people over to one’s apartment for social gatherings could spread the disease. She clings to her humdrum workaday commute despite the outbreak and past the point where the world falls completely apart. As an adult, she works at a book-publishing house that produces copies of the Bible. As a toddler, her parents emigrate from China to Utah, leaving her with relatives until they can afford to bring her over, too. We see flashbacks of Candace’s pre-pandemic life during the journey. They are on their way to Illinois, where a place called the ‘Facility’ promises refuge from the apocalypse. We meet Candace after she has fled New York City and hooked up with a handful of other survivors. It turns people into a kind of zombie the ‘fevered,’ as they are called, are doomed to a mindless existence performing rote tasks as they waste away and die. ‘Shen Fever’ originated in Shenzhen, China, and it is transmitted via fungal spores. Candace Chen is one of the last survivors of a plague that’s like Covid-19 on steroids.
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