This was a perfect addition to the pandemic reads I've already done in the last year and a half. I enjoyed so much about this book - Candace as a character, the jumps between different narrative timelines, all of the settings and their thorough descriptions. What I loved most was the writing style and the commentary, though. Ling Ma writes with such insight into humanity and American culture (and the Chinese immigrant experience, too, I would imagine). I appreciated the fun/surprising/meaningful choices she made, like making Candace work on the production of Bibles or the way that the fevered were characterized by their obsession with routine - and how Candace also obsessively followed routines in the early months of the fever outbreak. To that point, I kind of liked how "unrealistic" Candace's mid-epidemic choices were. It made for a more surreal story. I loved this!!