Petergiaquinta answers “How religious is this book?”

CJ - It's only a Paper Moon asked this question about Severance:

How religious is this book?

Petergiaquinta At first I was waiting for those mass-produced Gemstone Bibles made in the Shenzhen Economic Zone to somehow be connected to the spread of the Shen fe…moreAt first I was waiting for those mass-produced Gemstone Bibles made in the Shenzhen Economic Zone to somehow be connected to the spread of the Shen fever.

Then I realized that connection didn't really need to be made explicit or made at all because Ling Ma is helping us come to the understanding that globalization itself is like a virus spreading infection across the planet...and you know what else is? Religion too!

Ling Ma really does something interesting here by having Candace oversee the production of cheap Bibles made by Asian wage slaves for Evangelical American tweener girls. Things don't get much more cynical than that!(less)

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