Your question reminds me of that scene where she hands in her two-week notice before leaving the office, then wanders into this department store in Midtown. You’ve probably picked up that she feels ambivalent about her job, as a production coordinator of Bibles, made in China. She definitely feels resigned in some way. I don’t know if Candace Chen has clinical depression, but it’s possible.
Why is our main character passive? Does she suffer from depression? However, it kept coming back, taking on more resonance, until I couldn’t deny it.
In the months I spent finishing up the novel, I kept trying to convince myself that “Severance” was not the title. I don’t like one-word titles for some reason, and that word just seemed kind of severe. At first I thought it was very appropriate for the novel, then I began to have doubts. One morning, right after waking up, this title came to me, seemingly out of nowhere. The manuscript initially went by a different working title. You’ll find a selection of her answers below. Ling Ma, author of our December pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, recently answered questions submitted by readers about her novel, “Severance,” on Facebook.
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